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2019 Supreme(Cal) 788

ARINDAM SINHA
Saloo Choudhury – Appellant
Versus
Guinness World Records Ltd. – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
For the Plaintiffs :Pradip Kr. Ghosh, Sr. Advocate, R. Bhattacharyya, Rajesh Gupta, S. Rudra, Advocates
For the Defendant :S.N. Mookherjee, Dhruba Ghosh, Sr. Advocates, Soumyajit Ghosh, Rohit Banerjee, Ganesh N. Jajodia, Advocates

JUDGMENT :

1. Plaintiffs have claimed decree for Rs.1,66,63,07,750/- and consequential relief’s. This is their second suit. In their earlier suit no.454 of 1993 (Saloo Chowdhury & Anr. vs Guinness Publishing Ltd. & Ors.), they had claimed aggregate Rs.36,32,50,000/- as well as injunctions and consequential relief’s. First suit was compromised on terms of settlement being those reproduced below:

    "1.The defendant no.1, Guinness Publishing Limited agrees and undertakes to recognize and publish the plaintiffs, namely, Saloo Choudhury and Mrs. Neena Choudhury as the first and fastest man and woman to have circumnavigated the Earth by Car covering six continents under the applicable Rules in 1989 and 1991 in all future editions of "The Guinness Book of Records" published by Guinness Publishing Limited.

2. The plaintiff no.1, Saloo Choudhury will make his expert services available and use his best endeavour to ensure the global success of the proposed Guinness Book of Records, Milenium Challenge and the proposed Choudhury Trophy.

3. Saloo Choudhury will advise and counsel Guinness Publishing Limited for the period up to 1 July, 2000 and in connection therewith Guinness Publishing Limited shal

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