Radhe Krishna Products - A Partnership ... vs Parshottambhai Dharamshibhai ... on 28 August, 2014
Private Limited, State Bank of India vs. Gracure
Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (supra) as well as in case of N.V.
Srinivass Murthy (supra) are concerned, the Hon'ble Court,
in the said decisions, considered the matters in light of
Order 2 Rule 2. The said provision would come in picture
when the cause of action in both the suits is common. In
present case, the subject-matter and cause of action in
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the said two suits are different. In this view of the matter,
the decisions do not help the petitioners. Learned senior
counsel for the petitioners also relied on the decision
dated 10.10.2013 in Appeal from Order No.154 of 2013. It
is a decision in an appeal under Order 43 Rule 1(r),
wherein order below application for interim relief, whereby
the learned trial Court had, in exercise of power under
Order 39 Rule 1, granted interim relief against the
defendants, was challenged. Moreover, in the said
decision, the subject-matter in both the suits was use of
trademark 'Dandi Namak / Dandi Salt' and both the suits,
i.e. subsequent suit, wherein the impugned order under
Order 39 was passed and the previous suit which came to
be withdrawn, were related to and in connection with the
use of the same (i.e. above-mentioned) trademark.
Besides this, in the said decision, the Court reached to
specific conclusion and finding that the plaintiff had
furnished false declaration and both the suits were based
on same cause of action and the case suffered from
suppression of material facts and the plaintiff did not
approach the Court with clean hands. Thus, the said
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decision also does not render any assistance to the
petitioners in light of the facts of second suit.