Since taking over as Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) three months ago, Mundhe has put the state's entire food and beverage industry on edge. Mumbai: A day after the Bombay High Court pulled up the state's Food and Drug Administration Commissioner over his conduct, his team turned up to inspect the High Court's own canteen. It is a small but telling episode in the career of Tukaram Mundhe, a 2005-batch IAS officer of the Maharashtra cadre, whose style of working has put the spotlight on officers who take on those in power. Since taking over as Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) three months ago, Mundhe has put the state's entire food and beverage industry on edge. Pointing to breaches of hygiene standards and threats to public health, he has cancelled the licences of numerous well-known restaurants, ice cream parlours and dairies across Maharashtra. No one has been spared, from five-star hotels to government-run cant...