CASTROL LIMITED vs SANJAY SONAVANE AND ORS

Judgment text excerpt

$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI reserved on: 4 February 2026 pronounced on: 20 April 2026 + RFA(OS)(COMM) 38/2025 & CM APPL. 80125/2025 CASTROL LIMITED .....Appellant Through: Mr. Urfee Roomi, Ms. Janaki Arun, Ms. Anuja Chaudhary and Mr. Arpit Singhal, Advs. versus SANJAY SONAVANE AND ORS .....Respondents Through: Mr. Adarsh Ramanujan, Mr. Parth Singh, Mr. Gaurav Sharma and Mr. Madhav Anand, Advs. for R-1 Ms. Anuparna Chatterjee, Adv. for R-5 CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE C. HARI SHANKAR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE OM PRAKASH SHUKLA % JUDGMENT 20.04.2026 C. HARI SHANKAR, J. Facilitative Index to the Judgment S. No. Subject Para Nos 1 A The lis 1–6 2 B The Issue 7 3 C Facts 8 - 39 4 I CS (Comm) 855/2025 – The first suit 9 – 25 Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed By:AJIT RFA(OS)(COMM) 38/2025 Page 1 of 106 KUMAR Signing Date:20.04.2026 12:39:26 5 II CS (Comm) 946/2025 – The second 26 – 36 suit 6 III Proceeding before learned Single 37 – 39 Judge 7 D The Impugned Judgment 40 – 51 8 I Castrol’s contentions before learned 40 – 45 Single Judge 9 II Discussions and Findings of learned 46 – 51 Single Judge 10 E Rival Submissions 52 - 60 11 I Submissions of Mr. Urfee Roomi 52 – 54 12 II Submissions of Mr. Ramanujan 55 – 58 13 III Submissions of Mr. Roomi in rejoinder 59 – 60 14 F Analysis 61 - 112 15 I The Issue 61 16 II The Law 62 – 69 17 Gurbux Singh 70.1 – 70.6 18 Sidramappa 71.1 – 71.11 19 Deva Ram v. Ishwar Chand 72.1 – 72.10 20 Ram Prasad Rajak v Nand Kumar & Bros 73.1 – 73.6 21 Rikabdas Oswal v. Deepak Jewellers 74.1 – 74.5 22 Kunjan Nair Sivaraman Nair v. Narayanan 75.1 – 75.9 Nair 23 UOI v. H.K. Dhruv 76.1 – 76.4 24 Alka Gupta v. Narender Kumar Gupta 77.1 – 77.6 25 Coffee Board v. Ramesh Exports Pvt. Ltd. 78.1 – 78.9 26 Rathnavathi 79.1 – 79.4 27 Cuddalore Powerge