India, Aug. 8 -- The Bombay High Court on Friday sharply criticised the Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) cancellation of Amazon Retail India's food licence, saying, "We need to tell you that in order to implement your policies vigorously, you try to kill a mosquito with a sword."

The remark was made by a division bench of Acting Chief Justice Ravindra Ghuge and Justice Gautam Ankhad while hearing an appeal by Amazon Retail against the suspension of its licence by the FDA, after the regulator inspected its Bhiwandi warehouse on June 24 and alleged that the company was sending expired food into the retail market instead of scientifically destroying it.

The following day, the FDA suspended Amazon Retail's licence without is...