law: Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954
  9. Food Inspectors. -
  (1) The Central
  
  Government or the State Government may, by notification in the Official
  
  Gazette, appoint such persons as it thinks fit, leaving the prescribed qualifications
  
  to be Food Inspectors for such local areas as may be assigned to them by the
  
  Central Government or the State Government, as the case may be:
  Provided that no person who has
  
  any financial interest in the manufacture import or sale of any article of food
  
  shall be appointed to be a Food Inspector under this section.
  (2) Every Food
  
  Inspector shall be deemed to be a public servant within the meaning of Sec. 21
  
  of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860), and shall be officially subordinate to
  
  such authority as the Government appointing him, may specify in this behalf.