Dabur India Limited v. Ashok Kumar and Ors.

MEESHO ONLINE SHOPPING PVT. LTD. & ANR...... Defendants Through: Mr. Neel Mason, Mr. Vihan Dang, and Ms. Aditi Umapathy, Advs. for D-6. Mr. Vihan Dang, Ms. Aditi Umapathy and Mr. Parva Khare, Advs. for D-10. Mr. Darpan Wadhwa Sr. Adv, Mr. Alipak Banerjee, Ms. Shweta Sahu, Ujjainwal Advocates. for D-7. Mr. K.R. Sasiprabhu and Mr. Tushar Bhardwaj, Advs for Reliance Jio. (7) WITH + CS (COMM) 490/2022 & I.As.11324/2023, 2872/2024, 11324/2023 INFINITI RETAIL LIMITED..... Plaintiff Through: Mr. Raunaq Kamath and Mr. SauhardAlung, Advocates. (M:

9425341404)

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M/S CROMA WHOLESELLER & ORS...... Defendants Through: Mr. Anuj Srivastava, Adv. (M:9999690774) Mr. Piyush Singhal, Mr. Paras Khurana & Ms. Himanshi Jain, Advs. for D-15. (M:8810488484) Mr. YashuRustagi, Adv for Indian Bank (M. 8882149812) Ms. Richa Kapoor, Mr. Kunal Anand & Ms. Sakshi, Advs. for D-19. Mr.D.C Tripathi, Adv. for D-18 Mr. Manish Mohan, CGSC. Mr. Alipak Banerjee, Ms. Shweta Ujjainwal Advocates for D-4 Ms. Sonia Munjal, Adv. for D-22. Mr. Mrinal Ojha, Mr. Debarshi Dutta, Mr. Anand Raja Adv, Ms. Tanta Chaudhry. Mr. Shivam Tiwari & Mr. SamyakBilala Advs. for D-27. Mr. Manish Mohan, CGSC for UOI.. Ms. Yashika Kapoor and Mr. Parshant Arora, Advocates for VI. (8) WITH + CS(COMM) 193/2019 &I.As.5399/2019, 11497/2019, 18216/2019, 15451/2021, 6069/2022, 31775/2024 COLGATE PALMOLIVE COMPANY & ANR...... Plaintiffs Through: Mr. Saif Khan Mr. Achuthan Sreekumar, Mr. Prajjwal Kushwah Ms. Imon Roy Mr. Achyut Tiwari Ms. Kanupriya Chawla, Mr. Swastik Bisarya Mr. Rohil Bansal Mr. Shivang Sharma, Advs.

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NIXI & ANR...... Defendants Through: Ms. Akshita Jain, Advocate for D-1 (M-9990526912). Mr. Darpan Wadhwa (Sr. Adv.) with Mr. Arjun Mookerjee, Mr. Shivam Tiwari, Ms. Nikita Rathi & Mr. Rishabh Agarwal, Advs. for D-3-4. SamyakBilala Advs. & Ms. Akriti Mehrish, Advs. Mr. Tentu Satyanarayan, Director (Legal), UIDAI & Mr. Tanmaya Nirmal, Deputy Manager (Legal & Policy), UIDAI (M-9899113033). Mr. Kushagra Goel, Mr Lovesh Goel, Ms. Tanya Singhal, Advs. for D-7. SI Prince Kumar, PS Hauz Khas. Mr. Sunil Gautam, SO, UIDAI (9) WITH + CS (COMM) 297/2019 MOTHER DAIRY FRUIT & VEGETABLE PVT. LTD...... Plaintiff Sreekumar,Mr. PrajjwalKushwah Ms. Imon Roy Mr. Achyut Tiwari Ms.

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KUMAR PRAHLAD & ANR...... Defendants Through: Mr. Ravi Shankar Mahto, Adv. for D-1. (10) WITH + CS (COMM) 298/2019 & I.As.8189/2019, 13215/2019, 13631/2019, 15695-96/2019, 14210/2021, 16707/2021 ULTRATECH CEMENT LIMITED & ANR...... Plaintiff Through: Mr. Himanshu Bagai and Ms. Akanksha Singh, Advs.

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WWW.ULTRATECHCEMENTS.COM & ORS...... Defendants Through: Mr. Darpan Wadhwa, Sr. Advocate with Ms. Binsy Susan, Mr. Shashank Mishra, Ms. Ritika Bansal & Ms. Swati Agarwal, Advs for D-5 to 7. Mr. Ananta Prasad Mishra & Mr. Gagan Gupta, Advocates for D-9. Mr. Manish Mohan, CGSC for UOI. (11) WITH + CS (COMM) 732/2019 & I.As. 3865/2020, 9234/2020 MONTBLANC SIMPLO GMBH..... Plaintiff versus MONTBLANCINDIA.COM & ORS...... Defendants Through: Mr. Rajiv Ranjan Dwivedi, Mr. Vishal Advocates for D-23 (M.8447704226) Mr. Yajur Bhalla, Mr. Deepak Samota and Mr. Sumer Ahuja, Advocates for D-1, 2, 4 to 10 & 20. (M:9711009378) Ms. Asiya Khan, Adv. for D-25 (M: 9971644936). Ujjainwal Advocates for D-18. (12) WITH + CS (COMM) 373/2020 & I.A.7995-96/2020, 7999/2020, 9171/2020, 84/2021, 430/2021, 1371/2021, 19495/2023& 583/2024 ITC LIMITED..... Plaintiff Through: Mr Pravin Anand, Ms Vaishali Mittal & Mr Shivang Sharma, Advs.

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ASHOK KUMAR & ORS...... Defendants Through: Ms. Ritu Mishra, Advocate for D-6. Mr. Hrithik Goyal and Ms. Lovleen Goyal, Mr L R Goyal Advs for D-12. Ms. Asmita Kumar, Mr.Amit Tyagi, Mr. UtsargSinsinwal, Shivangi Rana, Advs. for D-14 (M:8709271180). Ms. Asmita Kumar, Advocate for D-31. (M:9899967516) Mr Rajiv Kapur, Mr. AkshitKapur and Mr. Aditya Saxena, Advs for SBI (M: 9634644652). Ms. Radhika Bishwajit Dubey, CGSC, Ms. Gurleen Kaur Waraich& Mr. Karan Khetani, Advs. (13) WITH + CS (COMM) 498/2020 & I.A.10520-21/2020 MICROSOFT CORPORATION & ANR...... Plaintiffs versus PCPATCHERS TECHNOLOGY PRIVATE LIMITED Through: Mr. Sumit Nagpal, Ms. Dolly Luthra and Ms. AashtaSood, Advocates for D-1, 2 & 3. (M:9911995000) (14) WITH + CS (COMM) 82/2020 & I.A. 2402/2020 JOCKEY INTERNATIONAL INC...... Plaintiff versus WWW.JOCKEYFRANCHISE.COM & ORS...... Defendants Through: Mr. Vivek Jain and Ms. Aastha Tiwari, Advs. for D-4. (M:9871863446) (15) WITH + CS (COMM) 154/2021 & I.A. 4692/2021, 10905/2022 GODREJ PROPERTIES LTD..... Plaintiff versus ASHOK KUMAR & ANR...... Defendants Through: Mr. Darpan Wadhwa Sr. Advocate, Sahu, Mr. Parva Khare, Ms. Aishwarya Jain, Mr. Brijesh UjjainwalAdvs for D-2. Mr Neel Mason, Ms Ekta Sharma, Ms Pragya Jain, Ms Surabhi Katare, Advs. (16) WITH + CS (COMM) 276/2021 & I.A.7329/2021 MICROSOFT CORPORATION & ANR...... Plaintiffs versus TECH HERACLES OPC PRIVATE LIMITED Through: Mr Rajiv Kumar Malik, Mrs. Megha, Mr Deepanshu Nainwal, Advs for D-1 to 3. (17) WITH + CS (COMM) 293/2021 & I.As.7543/2021 TATA SONS PRIVATE LIMITED & ANR...... Plaintiffs versus M/S ELECTRO INTERNATIONAL & ORS...... Defendants Through: Mr. M.K. Singh, Advocate for Mr. Samir Chugh, Advs for Airtel Mr. Shashi Shekhar Dixit, Adv. for Airtel (M. 8896447704) Ms. Deepika Kathuria, Adv. for D-8. Mr. Rishabh Dev Mishra, Advocate for Bharti Airtel Limited. (18) WITH + CS (COMM) 95/2021 & I.A. 21025/2022, 6516/2023 THE HIMALAYA DRUG COMPANY & ORS...... Plaintiffs versus Through: Mr. Moazzam Khan, Ms. Shweta Sahu, Mr. Parva Khare, Ms. Aishwarya Jain, Mr. Brijesh Ujjainwal. Ms. Anvita Goel, Mr. Prince Kumar, Advs for Go Daddy. Mr. Moazzam Khan, Mr. Alipak Banerjee Ms. Shweta Sahu, Mr. Parva Khare, Mr. Brijesh Ujjainwal, Ms. Anvita Goel, Mr. Prince Kumar, Mr. Amrit Bhatia Advs. Mr. Tushar Singh & Ms. Trisha Patnaik, Advocates for D-25. Mr. Surinder Singh, Adv. for D-29 (M-9311325398) Aishwarya Kane, Advs for D-17. (19) WITH + CS (COMM) 700/2019 & I.As. 17945/2019, 1876/2020 XIAOMI TECHNOLOGY INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED & ANR...... Plaintiff Through: Mr. Peeyoosh Kalra, Mr. C.A. Brijesh, Mr. Krisna Gambhir, Ms. Simranjot Kaur, Advocates (M:989932064[6]) Mr. Ishith Arora, Adv. (M.

9654451996)

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WWW.XIAOMI-INDIA.XYZ & ORS...... Defendants Through: Ms. Shikha Sarin & Mr. Paras Malhotra, Advs. (M: 9910485840) Mr. Abhishek Parashar, In person. (M:

9319317578) Mr. Manish Mohan, CGSC. Ujjainwal Advocates for D-29. Arora, Advs. for VI. (20) WITH + CS(COMM) 250/2020 and I.A. 2285/2024 STAR INDIA PVT. LTD. & ANR...... Plaintiffs Through: Mr. Pravin Anand, Mr. Saif Khan & Mr. Rohil Bansal, Advs.

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OXIBUZZ.COM & ORS...... Defendants Through: Ms. Akshita Jain, Adv. for D-1 Mr. Darpan Wadhwa, Sr. Advocate with Ms. Swati Agarwal, Ms. Ritika Bansal & Mr. VaarishSawlani, Advs for D-3-4. Samyak Bilala Advs. (21) WITH + CS (COMM) 255/2020 INDIAMART INTERMESH LIMITED.... Plaintiff versus MR.

AKASH VERMA & ORS...... Defendants Through: Mr Neel Mason, Mr Ankit Rastogi, Mr Siddharth Vardhman, Mr Udit Tewari Adv. for D-2. (M: 9399304251). Mr. Rishi Kapoor & Ms. Yashika Kapoor, Advocates for D-3. Ms. Meenakshi Dutta, Mr. Anupam Kumar Mishra & Mr. Gautam Harshwal, Advs. for D-4 & 7. Mr Ankit Rastogi and Mr Saransh Saini, Advocates. Mr. Saransh, Adv. for Ms. Nandita Rao, ASC (Crnl.),GNCTD. Mr. Anupam Kumar Mishra and Ms. Keya Rawat, Advocates. (22) AND + CS (COMM) 324/2020 & I.As.6950/2020, 12588/2020, 11510/2021 MCDONALDS CORPORATION & ANR...... Plaintiffs Through: Ms. Rima Majumdar, Ms. Saakshi Khandelwal and Mr. Aaditya Vats, Advocates.

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NATIONAL INTERNET EXCHANGE OF INDIA Through: Dr. B. Ramaswamy, CGSC, for Special Cell, Delhi Police. & Mr. Amol Sharma, Advs. for D-37 HDFC. Mr. Shubhendu Anand, Mr. Akshat Kaushik, Mr. Piyush M. Dwivedi Advocate for D-1. Mr. Vivek Jain & Mr. Aastha Tiwari, Ms. Tulasi Mukhi, Advocates for D-18 & 28 (M9811426480). Mr. Kartik Bhalla, Adv. for ICICI Bank (M. 9818707178) Mr. Jaydip Pati, Advocate for D-24. Ujjainwal for D-5, 2, 6 7, & 8. Mr. Ravi Prakash, CGSC with Mr. Sahonwlah Farmani Ali, Advocate for D-35&36 (M-9469448888) Mr. Santosh Kumar Rout, Ms Dharna Veragi, Mr. Pawan Kumar & Mr. Abhishek Chakraborty, Advs for D-13 to 17, 22, 26, 27, 31) Mr Rajiv Kapur& Mr Akshit Kapur, Mr Tushar Bagga, Advocates. Mr Yashu Rustagi, Adv. for BOB. Banerjee, Ms. Shweta Sahu, Mr. Parva Khare, Mr. Brijesh Ujjainwal Ms. Anvita Goel Mr. Prince Kumar Mr. Amrit Bhatia Advs. for D-5. Mr. Tushar Singh & Ms. Trisha Patnaik, Advocates for D-25. Mr. Rajat Katyal & Mr. Harsh Sinha, Adv. for Yes Bank. Mr. Rishabh Dev Mishra, Adv. for Bharti Airtel Limited. Mr. Ateev Kumar Mathur & Mr. Amol Sharma, Advocates Sh. V. K Gupta, Sh. Sunil Shukla & Ms. Kaushiki Kashyap Advs for D-57 (M: 95822 06578). Mr. Harsh Sinha, Adv. for Yes Bank. (23) WITH + CS (COMM) 424/2020 & I.A. 2024[7] /2022, O.A.85/2024 SHOPPERS STOP LIMITED..... Plaintiff Through: Ms. Sanya Kapoor, Adv. (M:9810907412)

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M/S SHOPPERSTOP & ORS...... Defendants Through: Mr. P.S. Sudheer & Ms. Anne Mathew, Advs. for D-5. Banerjee, Ms. Shweta Sahu, Mr. Parva Khare& Mr. Brijesh Ujjainwal Adv. (24) WITH + CS(COMM) 471/2020, I.As.9795/2020, 2961/2021, 2885/2022, 5509/2022, 15107/2022, 2939/2023, 10797/2023, 10798/2023, 22191/2023, 3236/2024, 41778/2024, 41779/2024, 41801/2024, 41802/2024 PB FINTECH LIMITED..... Plaintiff Through: Mr. Kapil Wadhwa and Ms. Vasanthi Hariharan, Advocates.

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POLICY BAZAR FINANCE & ORS...... Defendants Through: Mr. Darpan Wadhwa Sr. Adv. Mr. Alipak Banerjee, Ms. Shweta Sahu, Mr. Parva Khare, Ms. Aishwarya Jain, Mr. Brijesh Ujjainwal Advs for D-9. Mr. Shubhendu Anand, Mr. Akshat Kaushik, Mr. Piyush M. Dwivedi, Advs. for D-16 (M: 7827709253). Mr. Rohit Rattu, Adv. D-27 Aishwarya Kane, Advocates for D-42 Mr Rajesh Kumar Gautam Adv, Mr Anant Gautam Adv, Mr R P Daida Adv, Mr Dinesh Sharma Adv, Ms AnaniAchumi, Ms Shivani Sagar, Advs. for R-51 (M. 8860853124) Sh. V. K Gupta, Sh. Sunil Shukla & Ms. Kaushiki Kashyap Advs. for D-57 (25) WITH + CS (COMM) 399/2021 & I.A. 10855/2021 HINDUSTAN UNILEVER LIMITED..... Plaintiff Ms. Ramya Aggarwal & Mr. Sohrab versus NITIN KUMAR SINGH & ORS...... Defendants Through: Mr. Ankur Prakash, Ms. Simran Gill, Mr. Yudhishthir Bhardwaj, Mr. Dhananjay, Mr. AmodBidhuri& Mr. Saquib Siddiqui, Advocates for D-1 Mr. Akshit Chaudhary, Adv. for D-5. Mr. Ramnish Khanna, Adv. for D-7. Mr. Bhagwan Swarup Shukla, CGSC with Ms. Priya Dwivedi, Advocate for UOI/D-18 & 19. Mr. K.K. Singh, Advocate for D-27. Bhardwaj, Advs for Reliance Jio. (26) WITH + CS (COMM) 524/2021 & I.A. 13715/2021, 4506/2022 KAMDHENU LIMITED..... Plaintiff Through: Mr. Nikhil Sonker, Adv. (M:7726021194) Mr. Sudarshan Kumar Bansal & Mr. Arpit Dudeja, Advs. (M. 9810132015)

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RAGHUNATH VIRDHARAM BISHNOI AND ORS..... Defendants Through: Mr. Rishabh Gupta and Mr. Abhishek Kumar Singh, Advocates. Mr. Lakshy Aggarwal, Adv. for D-3. Mr. Rishi Kapoor and Mr. Satish Rai, Advocates for D-3. (M:8368148214) Ujjainwal Advocates for D-8. Mr. K.G. Gopalakrishnan & Ms. Nisha Mohandas, Advs for D-7. and Mr. Parva Khare, Advocates for D-10 (M-99101983636) Mr. Sudarshan Kumar Bansal and Mr. Nikhil Sonker, Advocates. Bhardwaj, Advs. for Reliance Jio. (27) WITH + CS(COMM) 12/2022, I.As.263/2022 & 20922/2022 NEW BALANCE ATHLETICS INC..... Plaintiff Through: Mr. Dushyant Mahant, Mr. UrfeeRoomi and Mr. Ayush Dixit, Advocates (M: 7011629381).

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9811549455) Mr. Sandeep Kumar Mahapatra, Adv, CGSC; Mr. Tribhuvan, Adv for D-15 Mr. ApoorvKurup, CGSC; Ms. Nidhi Mittal; Ms. Muskaan Gupta, Advs. for D-16 (M. 8826584325) Mr Naveen Kumar Jain, Adv. D-17 Mr Shivam Narang, Adv. for D-26 Mr. Akshay Goel, Ms. Vishali Nahar, Mr. Paras Arora, Advs. for D-13. (28) WITH + CS (COMM) 26/2022 & I.As.612-13/2022, 954/2022 HT MEDIA LTD..... Plaintiff Mann, Advocates. (M:8017571175)

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POOJA SHARMA & ORS...... Defendants Through: Mr Firoz Iqbal Khan, Mohd Shad Advocate, Advs. for D-4 for Bharti Airtel Limited Ujjainwal Advs. for D-19. Mr Anand Kumar Shukla, Adv. and Mr. Parva Khare, Advs for D-20. Mr. M.K. Singh, Advocate for Mr. Samir Chugh, Advocate for Airtel. Mr Suaib Ahmed Khan and MD Shad, Advs. with Defendant ShammiAlam Khan. (29) WITH + CS (COMM) 35/2022 & I.As.819/2022, 3168/2022, 4738/2022, 8767/2022 KAJARIA CERAMICS LIMITED..... Plaintiff Through: Ms. Rima Majumdar, Mr. Aditya Vats and Ms. Saakshi Khandelwal, Advs.

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GODADDY.COM LLC & ORS...... Defendant Through: Mr. Alipak Banerjee, Ms. Shweta Ujjainwal Advs. for D-1. Mr. Sandhya Chawla, Adv. for D-2. Mr. Rishabh Dev Mishra, Adv. for Bharti Airtel. Mr. Lakshy Aggarwal, Adv. for d-4 Ms. Kirti Bhardwaj, Adv. for D-5(b). Samir, Advocate (M-9810455716) Mr. Santosh Kr. Rout, Ms. Dharna Veragi, Mr. Pawan Kumar & Mr. Abhishek Chakraborty, Advs. for D-6. Dr. B Ramaswamy, CGSC for IFSO Unit (30) WITH + CS (COMM) 233/2022 & I.As. 5780-81/2022 BAJAJ FINACE LTD & ANR...... Plaintiffs versus NIKO DAS & ANR...... Defendants Through: Mr. Vihan Dang, Ms. Aditi Umapathy and Mr. Parva Khare, Advs. for D-3. Mr Prashant Prakash, Mr. Varun Pathak, Ms. Amee Rana, and Mr. Vishesh Sharma, Advs. for D-4. Mr. Lakshy Aggarwal, Adv. for D-7. Mr. Neel Mason, Mr. V. Dang & Ms. Aditi, Advs. for D-3. (M:9971586598) Ms. Yashika Kapoor and Mr. ParshantArora, Advocates for VI. (31) WITH + CS (COMM) 275/2022 & I.As. 6535-36/2022 HINDUSTAN UNILEVER LTD & ANR...... Plaintiffs versus UNILEVERR[1].IN & ORS...... Defendants Through: Mr. Rishabh Dev Mishra, Advocate Mr. Rahul Chauhan, Ms. Aishwarya Mishra Advocates for D-21. Ms. Asiya Khan, Advocate for D-25 Mr Chandrashekhar Chakalabbi, Ms Aishwarya Hiremath &VarnikKundaliya, Advs. for D-20 (32) WITH + CS (COMM) 364/2022 & I.As. 8518-20/2022, 12855/2022 AMAZON SELLER SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED & ANR...... Plaintiffs Tiwari, Ms. Nikita Rathi, Mr. Rishabh Agarwal, Advs. for D-8.

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AMAZONBUYS.IN & ORS...... Defendants Through: Mr. Raghav Awasthi, Adv. for D-5. Mr. Navneet Mishra, Adv. for Ms. Ritu Mishra Adv. for D-6 (M: 9318374047). Mr. Prashant Prakash, Adv. for D-7. Ms Yukti Gupta, Adv. for HDFC Bank Ms. Mrinal Ojha, Mr. Debarshi Dutta & Mr. Aayush Kevlani, Advocates for D-8 (M-9167094381) Mr. Shashi Shekhar Dixit, Adv. for D-10. Mr. Vineet Dhanda, CGSC with Mr. Abhishek Singh, Adv. for UOI/D-18 & 19. Mr. Harshal Arora, Adv. for D-5. Mr. Varun Pathak, Ms. Amee Rana, &Mr. Vishesh Sharma, Advs. for D-4. Mr.Sharique Hussain, Adv. for HDFC Ms Ritu Mishra, Advocate for D-6 Canara Bank (M- 9873796792) (33) WITH + CS (COMM) 303/2022, I.As.7302/2022, 7307/2022, 17365/2022, 19451/2022, 21036/2022, 169/2023, 1932/2023, 1933/2023, 3319/2023, 7338/2023, 8120/2023, 11597/2023, 13276/2023, 17896/2023, 24159/2023, 720/2024, 3785/2024, 42225/2024w[3] BURGER KING CORPORATION..... Plaintiff Through: Mr. Mukul Kochhar, Advocate. Ms. Meenakshi Ogra, Mr. Tarun Khurana, Mr. Rishi Vohra & Ms Chhavi Panday, Advs. Mr. Raunaq Kamath and Mr. SauhardAlung, Advocates. (M:

9425341404) Mr Rajesh Kumar Gautam, Mr Anant Gautam, Mr R P Daida, Mr Dinesh Sharma, Ms AnaniAchumi, Ms Shivani Sagar, Advs. for R-11 Mr. YashuRustagi, Adv for Indian Bank (M. 8882149812) Mr. Kumar Vishwjeet, Adv. for D-15 Mr. Sandeep Kumar Mahapatra, CGSC, Mr. Tribhuvan, Advs. for D-15 Mr D.C. Tripathi, Advocate for D-19. Mr. Ramesh Kumar Mahaliyan, Adv. for D-20 (M. 8275092500) Mr Amit Mahaliyan, Advocate Ujjainwal Advs. for D-16

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SWAPNIL PATIL & ORS...... Defendants Through: Mr. Shashi Shekhar Dixit, Advocate Mr Amit Mahaliyan, Adv. for Bank of Maharashtra. (M:9899491980) Ms. Yashika Kapoor and Mr. Prashant Arora, Advocates for D-14. Mr. Alipak Banerjee, Mr. Parva Khare, Mr. Brijesh Ujjainwal Advocates for D-16 (M:9987115749). Ms. Shivani Shah, Mr. Amandeep Singh, Ms. Amrita Rana, Mr. Vinay Ranjan, Mr. Manu Pratap Singh, Advs for D-20 (M: 9005669985). (34) WITH + CS (COMM) 389/2022 & I.As. 9069/2022, 12578/2022 THE CAPITAL GROUP COMPANIES, INC..... Plaintiffs Through: Mr. Naqeeb Nawab, Mr. Ashutosh Ranga, Ms. Sejal Tayal, Ms. Apurva Bhutani, Advs. (M: 8209086773)

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Through: Ms. Nidhi Raman, CGSC with Mr. Zubin Singh and Mr. Akash Mishra, Advs. for D-4 & 5. Ujjainwalfor D-12 (M: 9987115749) Mr. Prashant Prakash, Advo. for D-19. (35) WITH + CS (COMM) 113/2023 & I.As. 4200/2023, 21659/2023 INDIAN FARMERS FERTILISER COOPERATIVE..... Plaintiff Through: Mr Abhishek Singh, Mr Elvin Joshy, Mr J Amal Anand, Mr Shashwat Tyagi, Ms Alisha Sharma, Advs.

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REGISTRANT OF IFFCOFRANCHISE.COM& ORS.. Defendants Through: Mr. Rajshekhar Rao Sr. Adv with Ms. Tine Abraham, Ms. Shivani Rawat, Mr. Mohanakrishna C., Mr. Abhi Udai Singh, Mr. Harshil Wason, Advocates for D-33. (M: 8054452858) Mr Varun Pathak, Mr Shyamal Anand, Mr. Thejesh Rajendran, Mr Tejpal Singh Rathore, Adv. for D-34 Mr Nitinjya Chaudhry, Sr Panel Counsel with Mr Rahul Mourya, Adv. for D-35 & 36 (M: 9810103680). Mr. Susmit Pushkar, Mr. Anchit Oswal, Mr. Gaurav Sharma, Ms. Naina Agarwal, Advs. for D-38. Ms. Jagriti Bharti, Adv. for Mr. Ramesh Babu, Adv. for D-39/RBI Mr. Nitinjya Chaudhry, Senior Panel Counsel with Mr. Rahul Mourya Advs. for D-35 Agarwal, Advs. for D-27. (36) AND + CS (COMM) 610/2023 & I.A. 16723/2023, 647/2024 CRESSET CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC & ANR...... Plaintiffs Through: Mr. Sourabh Rath& Mr. Vibhore Yadav, Advs. (M: 9811153629)

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REGISTRANT OF WWW.CRESSETCAPITAL.IN, WWW.CRESSETINDIALIVE.LIVE & ORS...... Defendants Through: Mr. Mrinal Ojha, Mr. Debarshi Dutta, Agarwal, Advs. for D-6. Mr Amit Tiwari CGSC, Mr. Ayush Tanwar & Mr. Pratham Chawla Advs CORAM: JUSTICE PRATHIBA M. SINGH Prathiba M. Singh, J. (Oral)

1. This hearing has been done through hybrid mode.

2. These are part heard matters. The present batch of matters relate to domain names being registered by unknown third parties infringing trade mark rights of various brand owners and implementation of Court orders by the Domain Name Registrars (‘DNR’s). In response to the challenges arising out of unauthorised registrations, from time to time, various directions have been passed by this Court in respect of blocking, locking and suspending of the infringing domain names, and implementation of Court orders by various DNRs which may or may not be located in India.

3. Mr. Gupta, ld. Counsel appearing on behalf of three banks i.e., HDFC Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, and CTBC Bank Co. Ltd. submits that, insofar as his clients are concerned, the Central Economic Intelligence Bureau (hereinafter, ‘CEIB’) has circulated an Office Memorandum which requires the banks to adhere to updated Standard Operating Procedure (hereinafter, ‘SoP’), whenever information is requested by the Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs). It is his submission that the said SoP was circulated on 31st May, 2024 by the Government of India, but the SoP has not yet been fully implemented by the banks.

4. Ld. Counsel for the RBI refutes this position and submits that in the affidavit dated 2nd July, 2024 it was clearly mentioned that all banks have to adhere to the SoP, which has been circulated. She refers to paragraph 6 of the said affidavit to argue that Indian Bank Association (hereinafter, ‘IBA’) had to take up the matter with CEIB for amending the SoP, as per the email dated 10th January, 2024.

5. The above discussion would show that insofar as the said SoP for sharing information with LEAs is concerned, the IBA has to ensure the implementation of the same by the banks, which has not yet been done.

6. The banks contend today that the SoP is still not a binding document. Mr. Gupta, at this stage, submits that he would then have to seek instructions in the matter and apprise the Court as to whether the said SoP has actually been followed or not.

7. Accordingly, issue court notice to Mr. Rajesh Kumar Gautam, ld. Counsel for Indian Bank Association (IBA) (M: 9811252434, email rajeshgautam@klmehta.net) in this matter for seeking instructions. Let an affidavit be filed on behalf of the IBA as to whether it has advised all the banks to ensure that the SoP is fully and strictly adhered to and also whether the same was circulated to all the banks or not.

8. In addition, Mr. Gupta ld. Counsel shall also to take instructions from the banks he is representing about the implementation of the SoP.

9. Both ld. Counsel for IBA and Mr. Gupta shall also seek instructions and file an affidavit on how much period is taken for freezing bank accounts after a Law Enforcement agency request and/or order of the Court is furnished to the banks.

10. Insofar as the Reserve Bank of India (‘RBI’) is concerned, it is submitted by Ms. Jagriti, ld. Counsel appearing for Mr. Ramesh Babu, that an affidavit was filed by the RBI and was considered by the Court on 2nd July,

2024. The affidavit had clearly stated that the Beneficiary Name Lookup Facility would be implemented by the end of December, 2024. Paragraph 5 of the said affidavit reads as under:

11. In respect of the above, ld. Counsel for RBI has handed across a press release dated 9th October, 2024, as per which she submits that insofar as UPI and IMPS is concerned, remitter can verify the name of the receiver before initiation of payment transaction.

12. However, the said system for verification of name of the receiver is yet to be implemented in RTGS and NEFT payment methods. She further submits that the said system for NEFT and RTGS payment methods has been developed and is under testing. The system’s name is Beneficiary’s Name Lookup Facility. The said facility is now going to be made available to the member banks and the guidelines would be issued shortly.

13. Steps being taken by the RBI to for implementation of the said Beneficiary’s Name Lookup Facility for RTGS and NEFT transactions are extremely crucial to prevent cyber fraud like the kind of fraudulent activity that are being dealt in this case. The RBI shall, without any delay, create the said facility referred to as, Beneficiary’s Name Lookup Facility in terms of its affidavit and the press release dated 9th October, 2024 as also in terms of various previous orders of this Court. Delay in the implementation is likely to impact thousands of innocent consumers, who make payments without realising who is the beneficiary.

14. Let the RBI expeditiously activate the said system of Beneficiary’s Name Lookup Facility and inform the IBA and its member banks of the said facility, which could be implemented by the Banks.

15. Arguments by Mr. Anirudh Bhakru and Mr. Abhishek Singh, ld. Counsels have concluded.

16. Mr. Pravin Anand, ld. Counsel has placed a compilation before the Court and has highlighted services, which are being operated by GoDaddy LLC on GlobalBlock and GlobalBlock+ wherein, according to ld. Counsel, GoDaddy is choosing to charge substantial sums for more than Rs.2.[7] lakhs for providing the services.

17. According to Mr. Anand, the services are being given by GoDaddy for protection of brands including for those which provide deceptively similar brands, homoglyph, variations and domain names with typographical errors of brands.

18. He further submits that this service, which is being offered, clearly shows that GoDaddy has the wherewithal to implement the orders passed by the Court, which it is failing to do as a DNR.

19. In addition, reliance is also placed upon the stand of Verisign Inc. in another matter – CS(Comm) 197/2024 where Verisign Inc., as a Registry, has taken the position that the issues relating to blocking of domain names are purely in the domain of the DNR itself and not the Registry. A set of documents, in this regard has been handed over to ld. Counsel for GoDaddy.

20. On these two aspects i.e., with respect to GlobalBlock and GlobalBlock+ services as also with regard to the difference between DNR and Domain Registry, GoDaddy shall file an affidavit at least two weeks before the next date of hearing.

21. List the batch of matters for hearing on 7th February, 2025.

22. Insofar as the specific matters and the applications pending therein are concerned, the same are listed as per the following table:

1 CS(COMM) 350/2020 (Item 2) 16th January, 2025 2 CS(COMM) 176/2021 (Item 3) 16th 3 CS(COMM) 228/2021 (Item 4) 16th 4 CS(COMM) 135/2022 (Item 5) 16th 5 CS(COMM) 193/2019 (Item 8) 16th 6 CS(COMM) 298/2019 (Item 10) 16th 7 CS(COMM) 498/2020 (Item 13) 24th 8 CS(COMM) 293/2021 (Item 17) 24th 9 CS(COMM) 324/2020 (Item 22) 24th 10 CS(COMM) 471/2020 (Item 24) 24th 11 CS(COMM) 35/2022 (Item 29) 24th 12 CS(COMM) 364/2022 (Item 32) 24th 13 CS(COMM) 389/2022 (Item 34) 24th PRATHIBA M. SINGH JUDGE DECEMBER 21, 2024/dk/bh (corrected & released on 24th December, 2024)