Litigation
Supreme Court Issues Notice In Patanjali Foods' Plea Against Telangana Factory Zone Cancellation; Orders Status Quo
The Supreme Court has issued notice in a special leave petition filed by Patanjali Foods Limited challenging the cancellation and re-allotment of its factory zone in Suryapet district, Telangana, and directed the parties to maintain status quo in the meantime.A Bench comprising Justice J.B. Pardiwala and Justice K.V. Viswanathan passed the interim order on 9 February 2026 while hearing the petition arising out of proceedings before the Telangana High Court.The Court directed that notice be...
Karnataka HC Orders Status Quo In Commune-1 Dispute; Earlier Interim Stay On Maintenance By Co-operative Society To Continue
The Karnataka High Court has directed parties to maintain status quo in a dispute concerning the “Commune 1” residential apartment project at Marasur Village, Anekal Taluk, while staying further proceedings pursuant to a RERA order that permitted a Co-operative Society to take over the project.A Division Bench comprising the Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice C.M. Poonacha, in Writ Appeal No. 1347 of 2025, passed an interim order directing that the earlier interim arrangement shall continue...
Scope Of Quashment Petition Distinct From Bail Cancellation For Violation Of Conditions: Madras High Court
The Madras High Court has observed that the scope of a petition seeking quashment of criminal proceedings is entirely distinct from that of a petition seeking cancellation of bail on the ground of violation of bail conditions, and that an interim stay granted in a quashment petition cannot come in the way of proceedings relating to cancellation of bail.Justice A.D. Jagadish Chandira made the observation while hearing a Criminal Original Petition filed by Alex Pandian seeking quashment of...
Delhi High Court Restores Interim Injunction In Favour Of Mold-Tek Packaging; Remands Patent Validity Issue For Fresh Consideration
The Division Bench of the Delhi High Court comprising Justice C. Hari Shankar and Justice Om Prakash Shukla has partly set aside an order of the Commercial Court and restored the ex parte ad interim injunction in favour of Mold-Tek Packaging Ltd. in a patent infringement dispute against Neway Industries Pvt. Ltd.The Court clarified that once a prima facie case of patent infringement is established, the burden of raising a credible challenge to patent validity under Section 107 of the Patents...
Delhi High Court Grants Interim Injunction In Author–Publisher Copyright Dispute Involving 'Petits Pas' And 'Allez-y' Series
The Delhi High Court, comprising Justice Jyoti Singh, has set aside an arbitral order refusing interim relief in a copyright dispute between authors and a publishing house, holding that the Arbitrator's decision was perverse and failed to apply settled principles governing interim injunctions in intellectual property matters.The appeal arose from a dispute between the Appellants, Preeti Bhutani and another, and the Respondents, Goyal Publishers and Distributors Pvt. Ltd. and others, concerning...
Calcutta High Court Orders Removal Of HSIL's “A Somany Enterprise” Trademark For Non-Use
The Calcutta High Court, exercising jurisdiction through its Intellectual Property Rights Division, by an order passed by Justice Ravi Krishan Kapur, has directed the removal of the registered device mark “A Somany Enterprise” from the Register of Trade Marks on the ground of non-use.The Court allowed a trademark rectification petition filed by Somany Ceramics Limited under Sections 47 and 57 of the Trade Marks Act, 1999, seeking removal of the registered device mark “A Somany Enterprise”,...
Delhi HC Grants Ex-Parte Injunction Against Unknown Entities for Running Fraudulent Investment Schemes Using 'SUEZ' Trademark
The Delhi High Court has granted an ex-parte ad-interim injunction in favor of Suez International and its group companies, restraining unknown entities from using the "SUEZ" trademark to operate fraudulent investment schemes. The order, passed by Justice Tejas Karia on December 8, 2025, in CS(COMM) 1304/2025, targets a "John Doe" operation involved in trademark infringement and passing off.Factual BackgroundThe Plaintiffs have been active in the Indian water and waste-water management sector...
Cryptocurrency Blanket “Inducement” Allegations Don't Survive: Bombay High Court Quashes FIR
A recent decision of the Bombay High Court (Nagpur Bench) is a timely reminder that cryptocurrency-linked complaints do not dilute the basic criminal law threshold. Even where a complainant alleges a high-return “crypto/token” pitch and a large number of investors, the prosecution must still show, for each accused, what they actually did that amounts to cheating or criminal breach of trust. In this case, the Court quashed the FIR against four accused because the allegations against them stayed...
Delhi High Court Dismisses UoI Plea Against CAT Order Quashing Penalty Imposed On DRDO Scientist
The High Court of Delhi has dismissed a writ petition filed by the Union of India and others, upholding the order of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) which had set aside the penalty imposed on Dr. Anil Kumar Tyagi, a scientist previously serving in the Defence Institute of Advance Technology (DIAT).The Division Bench of Justice Navin Chawla and Justice Saurabh Banerjee found no reason to disagree with the Tribunal's finding, noting that the Disciplinary Authority's order imposing the...
ITAT Mumbai Holds AI-Based Court Support As Charitable Activity; Grants 12AB & 80G Registration To Legsys AI Foundation
Legsys AI Technology Foundation(“the Applicant”), a not-for-profit company, was incorporated with the object of providing access to justice to the public, by rendering pro bono tech-services to District Courts, with the aid of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Applicant has developed an innovative speech-to-text transcription software “Adalat AI”, which is being made available across multiple courts in the country, without charging a fee. The software developed by the Applicant assisted the...
Supreme Court Grants Bail to Industrialist Sudhir Kumar Windlass; Dismisses SLP by Co-Accused Heena Thapa
The Supreme Court, on October 28, 2025, granted bail to industrialist Sudhir Kumar Windlass while dismissing the plea filed by Heena Thapa, observing that she was charge-sheeted only in one of the two FIRs related to alleged illegal land transactions.A Bench of Justice Pankaj Mithal and Justice Prasanna B. Varale was hearing two connected special leave petitions — Heena Thapa v. CBI; SLP (Crl.) No. 4928/2024 and Sudhir Kumar Windlass v. CBI; SLP (Crl.) No. 12231/2025.The Court noted that two...
NCLT Chennai Admits Insolvency Petition Against Ozone Homes Private Limited
In a significant development under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (“Code”), the National Company Law Tribunal, Chennai Bench - II, has admitted an Application filed under Section 7 of the Code by IDBI Trusteeship Services Ltd. (“IDBI”) against Ozone Homes Pvt. Ltd., marking the commencement of the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process against the real estate developer on October 10, 2025.The Application was filed by IDBI in its capacity as the Debenture Trustee acting on behalf of...