Delhi High Court
Uploading Show Cause Notice on 'Additional Notices' Tab Ineffective, Delhi High Court Reiterates
The Delhi High Court, on 21 January 2026, remanded a matter back to the Proper Officer, noting that uploading a show cause notice under the 'Additional Notices' tab was not a valid service. A Division Bench comprising Justice Nitin Wasudeo Sambre and Justice Ajay Digpaul set aside the demand order, allowing the petitioner to file a reply to the show cause notice and avail a personal hearing. The Bench noted: “we are of the view that the petitioner has made out a case for remand for the...
Delhi High Court Bars Rival Manufacturer From Using 'NOVA' Name on Ghee, Dairy Products
The Delhi High Court has temporarily restrained a manufacturer from making, selling, or advertising ghee and other dairy products under the “NOVA” name, after finding that the branding was likely to infringe Sterling Agro's trademark.A Single-Judge Bench of Justice Tushar Rao Gedela passed the order on January 21, 2026, while hearing an interim injunction application in a suit filed by Sterling Agro Industries, a Delhi-based dairy products company that markets its products under the “NOVA”...
Delhi High Court Grants Injunction Against Imposters Misusing 'Delhivery' Trademark
The Delhi High Court has temporarily restrained several known and unknown persons from misusing the name and brand of Delhivery, a logistics and supply chain company, to run fake franchise and delivery service scams.Justice Jyoti Singh passed the order on January 22, 2026, while hearing an interim injunction application in a suit filed by Delhivery after it discovered that fraudsters were impersonating the company to cheat members of the public.Holding that a prima facie case of infringement and...
Delhi High Court Upholds Forensic Audit Into CRB Mutual Fund Winding Up
The Delhi High Court has upheld directions for a forensic audit into the winding up of the Arihant Mangal Growth Scheme of CRB Mutual Fund. It has also allowed the Securities and Exchange Board of India to take steps to recover money paid to CRB group entities if violations are found. A Division Bench of Justice Anil Kshetarpal and Justice Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar dismissed appeals filed by former members of a court-appointed special committee, former CRB Capital Markets director C.R....
Delhi High Court Orders Takedown of AI Deepfake Film Violating Personality Rights Of Pawan Kalyan's Son
The Delhi High Court on Friday ordered the immediate takedown of an AI-generated film and related deepfake content depicting Akira Nandan alias Akira Desai, son of Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan, holding, prima facie, that the AI-generated use of his name, image, likeness and voice violated his personality and privacy rightsThe Court had earlier also protected Pawan Kalyan's personality rights in an interim order passed on December 22, 2025.In an order dated January 23, 2026,...
Arbitral Tribunal Is A 'Creature of Contract': Delhi High Court Upholds ₹25 Lakh Award To Carlsberg
The Delhi High Court has upheld an arbitral award directing Pali Hills Breweries Pvt. Ltd. to pay Rs 25 lakh to Carlsberg India Private Limited under a brewing contract, while partly allowing the company's challenge by setting aside the arbitrator's rejection of its storage-rent claim. The court held that the amount was a genuine estimate of loss agreed to by the parties. Justice Jasmeet Singh said the High Court could not step in to re-decide the dispute or re-examine the evidence. He said...
Vague Show Cause Notice Can't Justify Retrospective GST Cancellation: Delhi High Court
The Delhi High Court recently held that a GST registration cannot be cancelled retrospectively on the basis of a vague show cause notice, even where the appeal against such cancellation is delayed. A Division Bench of Justice Nitin Wasudeo Sambre and Justice Ajay Digipaul said the court cannot be a "blind spectator" to the denial of a proper opportunity of hearing, even where the proceedings are time-barred. “A vague Show Cause Notice is nothing less than a document which is not providing...
Delhi High Court Upholds Modified Arbitral Award In Prasar Bharati Cricket Broadcast Dispute With Overseas Marketer
The Delhi High Court has dismissed cross-appeals by Prasar Bharati and Stracon India Ltd, an overseas sports marketing company, upholding a single judge's ruling that only seven days of international cricket were missing under their BCCI broadcast marketing contract, and not seventeen as awarded by the arbitrator. A Division Bench of Justice Navin Chawla and Justice Madhu Jain agreed with the Single Judge that the arbitrator had wrongly excluded a 10-day India–Australia–New Zealand Triangular...
Delhi High Court Revives ITC's Challenge To Philip Morris's Non-Tobacco Nicotine Patent
The Delhi High Court has revived ITC Limited's challenge to a Philip Morris patent covering a non-tobacco nicotine product after setting aside a 2024 Patent Office order that had rejected ITC's opposition.In a judgment dated January 12, 2026, Justice Jyoti Singh allowed an appeal filed by ITC, holding that the impugned order suffered from a lack of independent application of mind and was largely a verbatim reproduction of the patentee's submissions and the recommendations of the Opposition...
Delhi High Court Orders Perjury Complaint Against Walmark Officials In Fortis Arbitration Case
The Delhi High Court has directed its Registrar General to lodge a criminal complaint for perjury against two officials of Walmark Holdings Limited for making false statements and swearing affidavits before the court in an arbitration-related dispute with Fortis Healthcare Limited. The court held that this was a fit case to invoke its powers under the Criminal Procedure Code for making false statements and swearing affidavits. “I am of the prima facie view that a fit case has been made out on...
Commercial Court Cannot Dismiss Non-Commercial Suit; Must Return Plaintiff: Delhi High Court
The Delhi High Court has held that when a commercial court finds that a dispute does not qualify as a “commercial dispute” under the Commercial Courts Act, it cannot dismiss the suit on that ground and must instead return the plaint so that the litigant can approach the appropriate civil court. A Division Bench of Justice Anil Kshetarpal and Justice Amit Mahajan set aside a Commercial Court order that had dismissed a recovery suit filed by former employee Pramod Kumar against Gannon...
Delhi High Court Sets Aside Rejection Of Comforter System Patent, Orders Fresh Review
The Delhi High Court has set aside a Patent Office order rejecting a patent application filed by Jesal Vimal Jetha for a therapeutic comforter system, holding that the refusal suffered from procedural infirmities and violation of principles of natural justice for non-consideration of applicant's responses to subsequent objections raised by Patent Office.Justice Tushar Rao Gedela delivered the judgment on January 23, 2026, while allowing an appeal against a 2020 order by which the Patent Office...