Gautam Gambhir files plea against a restro-bar using the same name

The restro bar owner's name is also Gautam Gambhir.

Gautam Gambhir | Pic Credit: India TV

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought response of a Delhi-based restro-bar chain on cricketer Gautam Gambhir’s plea seeking to restrain the restro-bar from using his name for its business.

Earlier, Gambhir's plea was rejected by single judge bench as the owner of the bar contended that the tagline ‘By Gautam Gambhir’ is used because his name too is Gautam Gambhir.

The single judge bench had on December 13 last year dismissed the plea of the cricketer saying, "Nothing has emerged on record if there was any loss to the goodwill of the plaintiff (cricketer) in his field i.e. Cricket because of running of the restaurants by the defendant (pub owner) with the tag line in his own name," the single judge said.

The plea, which was earlier rejected by a single judge bench, came up before the division bench of Justices G S Sistani and Sangita Dhingra Sehgal which issued a notice to DAP and Co.

The owner of DAP and Co. runs the two restro-bars — Ghungroo and Hawalat — at Punjabi Bagh in west Delhi. 

The cricketer had contended in his plea that the use of his name made the restaurant-cum-pubs appear to be “deceivingly associated or owned” by him and would therefore, cause “irreparable loss and undue hardship” to him.

In his plea challenging this order, cricketer Gambhir through senior advocate Rajiv Nayar contended that the name Gautam Gambhir, upon being mentioned, immediately gets associated with the cricketer only and no one else. He said the cricketer discovered in November 2016 that the owner was running the restaurants with the tag line 'by Gautam Gambhir' while the cricketer has absolutely no connection with the said restaurants.

The plea said the tagline tends to create confusion in the mind of the public regarding the fact that the plaintiff has some association or connection with the said restaurants. The restro-bar chain contended before the single judge that the tagline 'by Gautam Gambhir' was used in connection with the pubs as it was also the owner's name.

He contended that the first restaurant under the name 'Blu Wavs by Gautam Gambhir' was started in Rajouri Garden here and again in 2015 another restaurant under the name 'Play Reloaded by Gautam Gambhir' was opened in Rajouri Garden.

 
 

By Sihyeu Singh - 18 Jan, 2018

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