K.S. OILS LIMITED vs SHIVANG EDIBLES OILS LIMITED AND ANR & ANR.

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$ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment Reserved on: 20.03.2026 Judgment delivered on: 30.03.2026 Judgment uploaded on: 30.03.2026 + FAO (COMM) 69/2026 & CM APPL. 14636/2026, CM APPL. 14639- 14642/2026 K.S. OILS LIMITED .....Appellant versus SHIVANG EDIBLES OILS LIMITED AND ANR. .....Respondents Advocates who appeared in this case For the Appellant : Mr. Sandeep Sethi, Mr. J. Sai Deepak, Sr. Advs. with Mr. Yatin Chadha, Mr. Mayank Chadha, Mr. Kunal Khanna, Mr. Gurvinder Singh, Ms. Shreya Sethi, Mr. Krisna Gambhir, Mr. Kaulik Mitra, Ms. Dolly Luthra, Ms. Aashna Singh, Ms. Sanskriti Rastogi, Ms. Gaurika Chawla and Mr. R. Abhishek, Advs. For the Respondents : Mr. Rajiv Nayyar, Mr. Rajshekhar Rao, Sr. Advs. with Mr. Neeraj Grover, Mr. Arjun Mahajan, Mr. Sumit R. Sharma, Mr. Shreyas Maheshwari, Mr. Ajay Sabharwal, Mr. Raghvendra N. Budholia, Mr. Sagar Agarwal, Mr. Piyush Gautam, Mr. Harshit Kapoor, Mr. Manav Singh, Mr. Siddhant Bajaj, Mr. Aryan Verma and Ms. Bhavya Arora, Advs. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE V. KAMESWAR RAO HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE MANMEET PRITAM SINGH ARORA Signature Not Verified Signed By:MOHIT FAO (COMM) 69/2026 Page 1 of 24 Signing Date:30.03.2026 17:16 JUDGMENT MANMEET PRITAM SINGH ARORA, J. 1. The present appeal challenges the ex-parte ad-interim injunction order dated 04.02.2026 [‘impugned order’], whereby the Trial Court while holding that a case of passing off has been made out, has restrained the Appellant/defendant from using the word mark ‘KALASH’, and the labels ‘ , and ’ [‘impugned marks’] while dealing with edible oils or alike goods, and from representing itself as the proprietor thereof. 2. In the plaint and the impugned order, ‘ ’ is referred to as the FIRST KALASH LABEL, ‘ ’ as the SECOND KALASH LABEL and ‘ ’ as the THIRD KALASH LABE