T.P.S.MANN
Bikaner Steel Mills – Appellant
Versus
State Of Punjab – Respondent
T.P.S Mann, J.
1. By filing the present petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. the petitioner is seeking quashing of FIR No. 132 dated 7.7.2003, registered under Sections 420 IPC, 63 and 64 of the Copyright Act, 1957 and 79 of the Trade and Merchandise Marks Act, 1958 at Police Station Sadar, Khanna.
2. An application/complaint was submitted by Suhail Mohmad Qureshi, Central Coordinator Brand Protection, TATA Steels to the Director General of Police, Punjab stating therein that the Tata Iron Steel Company Limited, manufactures and sells a range of steel products.. Reinforcement bars bearing marking "TATA TISCON" is one of its products which are produced by using TMT technology and made out of the finest steel. For quite sometime, TATA Steel had been receiving complaints from its various authorized dealers/distributors that M/s Bikaner Steel Mills, located at GT Road, Mandi Gobindgarh was manufacturing and embossing TA-TA TMT bars and also passing of this product in the market as original TATA product. Since the spurious material is embossed as TATA, it is misleading for the customers, who were not always in a position to identify the original TATA TISCON from counterfeit. Said
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