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The Delhi High Court has directed Parle Biscuits to modify two of its announcements by blurring the image of the eyefuls used in the advertisements since they act as Britannia's Good Day biscuits (Britannia Diligence Private Limited v Parle Biscuits Pvt Ltd and Anr). Single- judge Justice Prathiba M Singh directed Parle to ensure that two of its announcements are modified within two weeks so that the cookie image suggesting Good Day biscuits are no longer visible in the said announcements on any online platform from May 1. Read More : Loop Telecom and Trading Limited Vs Union of India The Court was dealing with a suit filed by Britannia seeking endless instruction and damages against Parle for diminishment and violation of its design of Good Day range of eyefuls. Britannia’s complaint related to three announcements used by Parle to promote its Parle 20-20 eyefuls. While in March, Parle had agreed to change the design of the packaging and the eyefuls in one of its announcements, t

The Bombay High Court in June, 2020 has held that a wife is entitled to maintenance from her husband even if she carries some business and earns some money out of it. In this case the husband was asked to give his wife maintenance of Rs. 15000/- (Rupees Fifteen Thousand Only) per month and Rs. 7000/- (Rupees Seven Thousand Only) as a litigation cost under section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure 1973.. The order passed by the judge of the Family court was thereby challenged in the High Court.  The High Court said that, “ I n this era of inflationary economy, where the prices of commodities and services are increasing day by day, the income from the divorcee-wife business of beauty parlour, which has an element of seasonality, may not be sufficient to support the her livelihood and afford her to maintain the same standard of living to which she was accustomed to when she was resigning with her husband before the marital tie was situated by the decree of divorce by mutual consent”.