High court sets aside Maharashtra FDA orders on Subhiksha
04 Oct 2008
The Bombay High Court has set aside an order of the Maharashtra Food and Drugs Administration regarding the Mumbai warehouse and vendors of leading supermarket chain Subhiksha, the company said in a statement today.
The state government's regulatory body for food and drugs had, in August, passed orders for cancellation of licence of three of Subhiksha's vendors and imposed a 20-day suspension order on Subhiksha for alleged noncompliance of health and hygiene norms at its Bhiwandi warehouse.
The company had obtained a stay on the enforcement of the FDA orders on 15 August.
The court was of the view that the FDA order against Subhiksha was not sustainable and that the commissioner should decide the matter in accordance with law.
''Subsequent to the hearings, the bench yesterday set aside the FDA orders against all four companies as bad in law. Further, in respect of Subhiksha, the bench ordered that the commissioner FDA should re-decide the matter in accordance with law,'' the company said.
''We had challenged the suspension order against our Bhiwandi warehouse and had full faith in the Bombay High court. The judgement has completely vindicated our stance,'' Subhiksha managing director R Subramanian said in a statement.
There was nothing wrong in the company's warehouse operations or the hygiene of the products sold by it, he added.
