Delhi HC injunction in trade mark violation by transporters

The Delhi High Court last week passed an injunction in a trade mark dispute between Drs Logistics Ltd and Dr Dilip Roadlines and restrained the latter from using the trade mark ‘Agarwal Packers and Movers’. The trade mark of Logistics was allegedly misused in several ways, leading to the application for injunction. The high court noted that Dilip Roadlines did not own the trade mark in question which stood registered in the name of Logistics. There was no dispute that Dilip Roadlines was using the disputed trade mark in advertisements and quotations. Since it is neither the proprietor nor the registered user of the trade mark, it has absolutely no right to use it and any such use would amount to infringement of the trade mark. Therefore, till the main suit is finally decided, the court passed the injunction order.

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11 killed, more than 65 injured in Delhi HC bomb blast

At least 11 killed and more than 65 injured in a bomb blast near first security checkpoint in Delhi High Court premises where people were queuing for passes. The area was crowded with lawyers and witnesses because Wednesday is the day when most public-interest litigation is heard at the high court.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called it a "cowardly act of a terrorist nature".An email claim by the extremist group Harkat-ul Jihad Islami (Huji) that it planted the bomb.

"It would be very premature to make any comment on the mail at this stage, but yes, that mail has to be looked at seriously, because Huji is a very prominent terrorist group," SC Sinha, D. G. National Investigation Agency, told. The email reportedly demands that a man sentenced to death for involvement in an attack on Delhi's parliament ten years ago should not be hanged.

The US state department says Huji is a terrorist organisation with links to al-Qaeda. The group has been accused of carrying out attacks in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The leader of Huji, Ilyas Kashmiri, was reportedly killed in a US drone strike in north-western Pakistan in June.

In June, a bomb exploded in a car outside the same Delhi court complex. There were no casualties on that occasion. In July, 26 people died in three explosions in the country's financial capital, Mumbai (Bombay).

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Delhi HC allows lawyer to argue in Hindi

The Delhi High Court for the first time allowed a lawyer to bypass the official English language and argue in Hindi as he was more competent in his mother tongue. Allowing lawyer Das Goninder Singh to argue in his mother tongue Hindi, Justice Rekha Sharma for the first time responded to his arguments and put the questions to him in the same language.

Singh in his written submissions to the court, though in English, said he has had Hindi as the medium of his education throughout his educational career. He will be able to express himself more effectively about the facts of law if he is allowed to argue his case in Hindi, he stated. When asked why he did not write the application in Hindi itself, Singh replied that if I would have done so, my application would have been rejected at the outset at the filing counter itself. This is just the beginning he said. There is already a petition pending in court to allow Hindi to be used as official language in the court.

Some other High Courts like Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan have recognised Hindi as official language of the courts, but Delhi is still lagging behind, he said. So much so that many Hindi newspapers are not on the subscription list of the Delhi Courts, Singh said.

Since many lawyers are not well versed in English they have to seek the help of English speaking lawyers, the cost of which has to be borne by the litigants, making litigation very expensive, Singh said. ‘I am sure allowing Hindi to be used as official language in High Courts will reduce the cost of litigation too as many Hindi speaking lawyers who till now are reluctant to appear in the courts will get a chance to practise,’ he added.

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