The company was vindicated by a Bombay High Court judgment lifting the ban and describing it as arbitrary and "a violation of natural justice". Meanwhile, however, the Indian authorities — never shy of targeting foreign multinationals — raised the stakes with a Ministry of Consumer Affairs lawsuit claiming $100m in damages over Nestlé's alleged misleading of customers with "hazardous, defective and misbranded products". More from the Financial Times: Nestlé resumes production of Maggi noodles India court overturns Nestlé noodles ban India seeks $100m damages from Nestlé The ministry said the phrase, "No added MSG [monosodium glutamate]" on the packets was false, even though Nestlé said that the glutamate occurred naturally in the product and that it had in any case already agreed to remove the phrase from the packets.