MUMBAI, Sept. 25 -- The Bombay High Court has quashed the state's appointment of an administrator for the Navi Mumbai Agricultural Produce Market Committee, and ordered for elections without delay. The dispute arose when the five-year term of the Navi Mumbai APMC was about to expire on August 31, 2025. Its members submitted a proposal on August 7, seeking a 6-month extension so that elections could be organised smoothly. The state failed to make a decision regarding the request. Instead, on August 29, Vikas Rasal, director of marketing, appointed himself as an administrator and assumed charge on September 1. Calling this "a very disturbing feature of the case," the division bench of Justice Revati Mohite Dere and Justice Sandesh D Patil noted that there was no justification for dislodging "a democratically elected body of the APMC by an executive fiat."HTC...