India, July 24 -- Amid a wide crackdown on eateries and food manufacturers by the state Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Bombay High Court earlier this week stayed an order of the administration suspending the license of a dairy in Pune and said that its license was suspended without affording it an opportunity to rectify its alleged defects.

The FDA's order "does not spell out adequate reasons to show that it was imperative in the interest of public health to straightaway suspend the licence and that a lesser measure, in the circumstances of the case, would not serve the purpose," justice N J Jamadar said in his order passed on Monday.

The court was hearing a petition filed by Atharva Milk and Milk Products Industries (AMMPI) wh...