India, Aug. 30 -- The Bombay High Court on Saturday dealt a double blow to the Maharashtra FDA, forcing the regulator to backtrack on two major enforcement actions after being admonished for acting against the "principles of natural justice" and taking a "pedantic instead of pragmatic view."

Pulling up the FDA for showing "undue haste" in passing orders without analysing the law in connection with eateries on the Mumbai Cricket Association premises, the high court asked: "Do you feel you are a Lord and you can do anything?"

In the first instance, the FDA withdrew its order cancelling the drug sale licence of Cipla Pharma and Life Sciences Limited's unit in Pune after a bench of Acting Chief Justice Ravindra Ghuge and Justice Gautam Ankh...