The proprietor of Feel Good India Company was in a trademark infringement fight with another Mumbai based company where the woman allegedly threatened to file a false molestation case against the court receiver
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According to TOI, Gandhir’s lawyers sought leniency considering the fact that she was a young entrepreneur with two children. She said the “use of the word ‘molestation’ was ‘unintended in spirit’ and was as such used as a ‘term of art’ and was said in a state of great fear and apprehension”. The HC refused to accept the explanation. “If such abhorrent behaviour is left unpunished, by showing compassion to a person who knowingly, grossly abuses the process of law, and thereafter attempts to justify the same by saying that she did it in a fit of rage, the court will send out a wrong message to the general public,” said the judge. “Such conduct may also deter court officials from executing orders against women,” said the judge.
The case was filed by Sapat Company against Feel Good for infringing on their trademark name for a cough syrup. The High Court restrained Gandhir’s company Feel Good from infringing the copyright on December 21, 2018, and appointed a court receiver to seize goods from their factories. The confrontation took place on January 4, when the court receiver and representatives of Sapat Company tried to video-record loading of goods into a tempo. “Gandhir tried to snatch away his phone, asked him to delete what was video-graphed and used the most easily available weapon to an unscrupulous and dishonest woman, when her dishonesty is exposed, by threatening them that she will level false allegations of molestation against them,” the court observed.
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