Delhi High Court Upholds Restoration Of Shareholding After 964 Shares Allotted During Restraint Order

The Delhi High Court has upheld an order directing restoration of the shareholding pattern of Moral Properties Private Limited after its Board allotted 964 fresh shares while a restraint order concerning the company's properties was in force.Justice Manoj Kumar Ohri dismissed an appeal against the order passed by the Additional District Judge, South District, Saket Courts, which found that the allotment violated the restraint order and directed restoration of the earlier shareholding pattern.The...

Delhi High Court Sets Aside Order Rejecting Patent For Carbon Dioxide Capture Device

The Delhi High Court has set aside an order of the Assistant Controller of Patents rejecting Enviro Ambient Corporation's patent application for a carbon dioxide capture device, finding the rejection “unreasoned and non-speaking.”Justice Jyoti Singh observed that a substantial part of the impugned order was devoted to extracting objections raised in the First Examination Report (FER) and referring to prior arts, without properly analysing Enviro's case. “Regrettably, none of these issues even...

Delhi High Court Restrains Rogue Websites From Using Well-Known GATI Mark For Packers, Movers Services

The Delhi High Court has restrained 36 operators of rogue websites and an unidentified person from offering packing, shifting, and relocation services under marks incorporating the well-known “GATI” or deceptively similar variants. The court also directed domain registrars, including GoDaddy, to lock and suspend the domains listed in the order within 36 hours of receiving a copy of the order. Justice Jyoti Singh was hearing an application filed by Allcargo Logistics Limited seeking an ex-parte...

Single Judge Could Not Have Relaxed Injunction Upheld By Division Bench In Dabur-Emami Case: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has held that a single judge cannot relax an interim injunction restraining Dabur India Limited from selling its “Cool King Thanda Tel” under a trade dress found deceptively similar to Emami Limited's product after a Division Bench has already upheld the injunction in appeal.A division bench of Justice V. Kameswar Rao and Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora held that Dabur's subsequent application seeking permission to dispose of its existing stock could not have been...

Delhi High Court Restrains Scott Edil From Selling 'Nexporin', 'Zetum' Over Similarity With GSK Marks

The Delhi High Court on 5 August restrained Scott Edil Pharmacia Limited and its affiliate from manufacturing, selling or advertising pharmaceutical products under the marks “Nexporin” and “Zetum”, holding them deceptively similar to GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Limited's registered trademarks “Neosporin” and “Ceftum”. Justice Jyoti Singh passed the order while hearing an application filed by GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Limited (GSK) seeking an ex-parte ad-interim injunction against...

Delhi High Court Restrains Mohali Restaurant From Using 'GOLA' Marks After Franchise Termination

The Delhi High Court on 5 August restrained GM Foods and another, operators of a restaurant in Mohali, from using the trademarks "GOLA," "GOLA SIZZLERS" and "GOLA RESTAURANTS" following termination of their franchise arrangement with Gola Sizzlers Private Limited over royalty defaults and alleged sales suppression. Allowing the application, a Bench of Justice Jyoti Singh observed that "prima facie without any right, title or authority and amounts to infringement under Section 29(2)(c) of the...

Delhi High Court Seeks PAN Details Of Supreme Court, High Court Judges Amid Income Tax Allowances Dispute

The Delhi High Court on Monday directed the Private Secretaries of Supreme Court and High Court judges who have filed their income tax returns under the new tax regime to furnish their PAN Card details.The Court had also directed furnishing other details like assessment year, date of filing and Acknowledgment Number (of Return) to the Income Tax Department, to ensure that their returns are not processed pending adjudication of a plea concerning the tax treatment of judicial allowances.The bench...

Delhi High Court Issues Notice On YouTuber's Plea Challenging Meta's Copyright Strike Mechanism

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued notice on an application by stock market trading content creator Saurabh Maurya challenging the manner in which his account was suspended following copyright strikes. Even as Meta informed the court that Maurya's account had been restored and the strikes against it reversed, Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani issued notice on his broader challenge to the manner in which intermediaries act on copyright strikes. Maurya approached the court after his account was...

Delhi High Court Grants Jahnvi Kapoor Relief Against Obscene Content, Commercial Misuse Of Persona

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday declined to grant a blanket injunction sought by actor Jahnvi Kapoor against 6,884 URLs that she claimed infringed her personality rights.Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani indicated that interim relief could be considered for three categories of content. These were content that is ex facie obscene or pornographic, content that directly monetises Kapoor's personality rights, and content using her name and likeness to promote the sale of merchandise or services.Kapoor...

Assessing Officer Can't Become An Economist To Question Expected Return In Share Valuation: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has held that an Assessing Officer (AO) cannot act as an economist to determine the expected rate of return while examining a company's share valuation.The Division Bench of Justices Dinesh Mehta and Rajneesh Kumar Gupta added that while the AO may identify flaws in the valuation methodology adopted by a taxpayer, he cannot substitute the commercial assumptions underlying a recognized valuation method with his own.The Court made the observations while dismissing the Income...

Delhi High Court Orders Banks To De-freeze Provisional GST Attachments After 1 Year Unless Fresh Order Served

The Delhi High Court has directed all banks and financial institutions to de-freeze bank accounts provisionally attached under Section 83 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (CGST Act), upon the expiry of one year from the date of attachment, unless a fresh attachment order is issued in accordance with law.The Division Bench of Justices Anil Kshetrapal and Shail Jain also directed the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to issue a circular to all scheduled banks and financial institutions to...

Employment Disputes Not Commercial Disputes Under Commercial Courts Act: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court on 7 August 2026 clarified that disputes arising from employment contracts, including claims for salary arrears and increments, do not qualify as “commercial disputes” under Section 2(c) of the Commercial Courts Act, 2015, but held that a Commercial Court must return such a plaint instead of dismissing the suit. A Division Bench comprising Justices Prathiba M Singh and Vikas Mahajan upheld the finding that the dispute between Ram Lakhan Shukla and his employer was not a...