The Bombay High Court has directed the Maharashtra government to hand over to Johnson & Johnson Pvt Ltd a report of the Central Drug Laboratory, Kolkata, based on the basis of which the state had cancelled the company’s cosmetic manufacturing licence for its Mulund facility for its baby powder.

A vacation bench of Justice N J Jamadar and Justice Sharmila Deshmukh passed the decision on Wednesday while hearing a petition filed by the company challenging two orders of the state government—one dated September 15 cancelling the license and the second dated September 20 ordering that the  manufacturing and sale of the company’s baby powder product be stopped immediately.