* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment delivered on: 10.04.2026 + CS(COMM) 700/2024 GURBAAZ PRATAP SINGH MANN. .....Plaintiff Versus KUNWAR RAGHAV BHANDARI AND ORS. ....Defendants Advocates who appeared in this case For the Plaintiff : Ms. Malvika Trivedi, Senior Advocate with Mr. Nikhil Chawla, Mr. Nikhil Palli, Ms. Niyati Razdan, Mr. Shailendra Slaria and Ms. Mansha Mehta, Advocates.

For the Defendants : Mr. Chander M. Lall, Senior Advocate with Mr. Abhishek Singh, Mr. J. Amal Anand, Mr. Elvin Joshy, Ms. Shivani Kalra, Mr. K.V. Vibu Prasad, Mr. Ayush Soni and Ms.

Annanya Mehan, Advocates.

CORAM:

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE TEJAS KARIA

JUDGMENT

TEJAS KARIA, J I.A. No. 36773/2024

1. This is an Application under Order XXXIX Rules 1 and 2 read with Section 151 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (“CPC”) on behalf of the Plaintiff seeking interim injunction as under:

“a. A Decree for permanent injunction restraining the Defendants, its directors, executives, partners or proprietors, subsidiaries, sister concerns as the case may be, their officers, servants and agents or any other persons acting for and on their behalf from misappropriating, performing, publishing, disseminating, offering for use/sale, offering for download, using, advertising, operating, marketing, selling, dealing in any manner, directly or indirectly, the Impugned Game ‘IGPL FLASH GOLF/SMASH FORMAT’ which is a reproduction and/or substantial reproduction and copy of the Plaintiffs’ original expression ‘SHOT SQUAD LEAGUE’/‘THE SMASH LEAGUE’ so as to infringe Plaintiff's Copyright in the Game ‘SHOT SQUAD LEAGUE’/‘THE SMASH LEAGUE’, including but not limited to the Game Mechanics/Game Play, format, other features as mentioned herein etc, by reproducing the same in any material form or using the same or any colourable imitation thereof or otherwise howsoever, amounting to infringement of Copyright;

b. A Decree for permanent injunction restraining the Defendants, its directors, executives, partners or proprietors, subsidiaries, sister concerns as the case may be, their officers, servants and agents or any other advertising, marketing, publishing, disseminating, offering for use/sale, and/or dealing in any manner, directly or indirectly, any brochure/sheet/literary text, which is reproduction and/or substantial reproduction of so as to infringe the Plaintiff’s Copyright in the original Literary Work titled ‘SHOT SQUAD LEAGUE’ bearing Registration No. L- 87301/2019”, amounting to infringement of Copyright;

c. A Decree for permanent injunction restraining the Defendants, its directors, executives, partners or proprietors, subsidiaries, sister concerns as the case may be, their officers, servants and agents or any other persons acting for and on their behalf from using, advertising, marketing, operating, offering for use, and/or in any manner using directly or indirectly in relation to any golf purposes and/or such allied and

cognate goods and/or services, under the Impugned Mark ‘SMASH’ or any other identical and/or deceptively similar mark to the Plaintiff’s Mark ‘THE SMASH LEAGUE’ / ’, amounting to infringement of the Plaintiffs registered marks under

Class 41;

d. A Decree for permanent injunction restraining the

Defendants, its directors, executives, partners or proprietors, subsidiaries, sister concerns as the case may be, their officers, servants and agents or any other persons acting for and on their behalf from using, advertising, marketing, operating, offering for use, and/or in any manner using directly or indirectly in relation to any golf purpose and/or such allied and cognate goods and/or services, under the Impugned Mark ‘SMASH’ or any other identical and/or deceptively similar mark to the Plaintiff’s Mark ‘SMASH/THE SMASH LEAGUE’ /

’, or doing any other thing which will lead to Passing off of the goods and services of the Defendant as those of the Plaintiff;

e. A Decree for permanent injunction restraining the

Defendants, its directors, executives, partners or pr