Delhi High Court Orders Removal of Deepfake Videos and Content Violating Bhuvan Bam's Personality Rights

The Delhi High Court recently issued interim directions on a plea by content creator Bhuvan Bam seeking removal of infringing content, including deepfake videos, that continued to exploit his personality rights despite an earlier protective order. The court held that a prima facie case was made out, restrained further unauthorised use of his persona, and directed online platforms to take down identified infringing content within 36 hours. “I am of the view that Plaintiffs have established a...

Challenge To Impleadment Of Non-Signatory In Arbitration Maintainable Only After Award: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has reiterated that where an arbitral tribunal rejects a jurisdictional objection, including to the impleadment of a non-signatory, the challenge to such a decision can be raised only after the tribunal proceeds with the arbitration and makes an award. On this basis, the court dismissed as not maintainable an appeal filed by Ocean View Properties LLP against an order of the arbitral tribunal impleading it as a party to the proceedings, even though it was not a signatory to...

Delhi High Court Upholds Rejection Of Blackberry Patent On Colour-Coding Message Recipients Feature

The Delhi High Court has dismissed an appeal filed by Blackberry Limited, upholding the refusal of a patent application for a feature that colour-coded message recipients meant to help users distinguish between recipients before sending messages. In a judgment pronounced on April 30, 2026, Justice Tejas Karia held that the invention was unpatentable under Section 3(k) of the Patents Act as a computer program per se and also lacked an inventive step. The Court observed that the problem of...

Husband's Income Tax Returns Are Personal Information, Not Disclosable Under RTI Act: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has held that a husband's income tax returns constitute “personal information” and are exempt from disclosure under the Right to Information (RTI) Act unless a larger public interest justifies such disclosure. The court set aside a Central Information Commission (CIC) order directing their disclosure to his wife in a matrimonial dispute. Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav ruled that income-related details sought by the wife did not fall within the “larger public interest”...

Delhi High Court Rules 'The House of the Blue Mangoes' Does Not Infringe Sivasundari Bose's Work

The Delhi High Court has recently ruled that the novel 'The House of the Blue Mangoes' by David Davidar does not infringe the copyright claimed by author Sivasundari Bose, bringing an end to a dispute between the two that has stretched on for years. Delivering the judgment on April 30, 2026, Justice Tejas Karia said the similarities pointed out between the two works stemmed from shared historical context, cultural references, and familiar elements of multi-generational family sagas, material...

Delhi High Court Refuses To Entertain IT Rules Takedown Plea In Copyright Case; Allows Plea To Be Withdrawn

The Delhi High Court has observed that a direction to intermediaries to take down content on the basis of private copyright claims cannot be granted without a prior determination by a court, while dealing with a plea seeking removal of allegedly infringing content. “The private intermediaries cannot be expected to, in the absence of there being a finding rendered by a Court, to take down, suspend or block content, which is contended by an individual to be their intellectual property,” the court...

ITAT Can't Grant Tax Benefits To Charitable Institution Without Proper Inquiry Delhi HC

The Delhi High Court has held that a tax appellate tribunal cannot directly grant tax exemption benefits to a charitable trust without first ensuring that a proper inquiry into its activities has been carried out. A division bench of Justices Dinesh Mehta and Vinod Kumar passed the ruling while setting aside an order of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT), which had directed the grant of registration and approval to Sukoon SP Foundation, a charitable trust.The trust had applied for...

Amazon- Future Coupons Reach Settlement; Delhi High Court Disposes Challenge To SIAC Award

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday permitted withdrawal of petitions filed by Future Coupons Private Limited and promoter entities, including Ashni Kishore Biyani, against a Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) award in their dispute with Amazon. The award had held them in breach of contractual obligations and directed them to pay Rs 23.7 crore in damages, along with Rs 77.3 crore and SGD 68,550 towards costs, but the challenge was withdrawn after the parties entered into a settlement...

Madras High Court Dismisses TTK's Passing Off Suit Against Godrej 'YUMMIEZ' Mark, Imposes ₹5 Lakh Costs

The Madras High Court has dismissed a suit filed by T.T. Krishnamachari & Co. seeking passing off relief against Godrej Agrovet Limited over the mark “YUMMIEZ”, and directed it to pay Rs.5 lakh as costs, noting the suit had been pending since 2007. On April 20, 2026, Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy held that TTK failed to establish the case for passing off, observing: “Effectively, none of the elements constituting the classical trinity have been made out by the plaintiffs.” TTK stated...

Delhi High Court Restrains AAI From Encashing ₹3.17 Cr Bank Guarantees In Jabalpur Airport Upgradation Dispute

The Delhi High Court has recently restrained the Airport Authority of India from taking any further precipitative or coercive action against NKG Infrastructure Ltd. in relation to bank guarantees aggregating to Rs. 3.17 crore furnished for the Jabalpur Airport upgradation project, noting that the disputes are already under consideration before a Dispute Resolution Committee (DRC). It clarified that the present order will not apply to two bank guarantees that have already been processed for...

Delhi High Court Grants Temporary Injunction To Google's Waymo, Bars Use Of 'P-WAYMO' Mark

The Delhi High Court recently granted an ad interim injunction in favour of Waymo LLC, a subsidiary of Google's parent Alphabet Inc., restraining an Indian entity from using the mark “P-WAYMO” or any deceptively similar variant in a trademark dispute. A single-judge Bench of Justice Jyoti Singh said, “Having heard learned counsel for the Plaintiff and upon perusal of the documents, I am of the view that Plaintiff has made out a prima facie case for grant of ad interim injunction against the...

Delhi HC Upholds Award, Says ACC Must Pay Over ₹10 Crore To Engineering Projects For Mining Project Defaults

The Delhi High Court has upheld an arbitral award holding a subcontractor liable to pay over Rs.10 crore to the main contractor under a back-to-back contract for losses caused by its own poor performance.Justice Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar said: “The recovery of a proportionate share of those penalties from ACC, as the party whose underperformance caused the termination, is a straightforward application of the contractual framework and of the back-to-back principle that governed the parties...