08 Mar Can a person get anticipatory bail in offences related to Trade Mark?
HC refuses pre-arrest bail, says offences under Trademark Act cognisable
The court held that as the accused had blatantly violated trademark and copyright provisions, had also resorted to cheating by getting sub-standard goods manufactured and inducing people into buying them by passing them off as that of a reputed company, his custodial interrogation was necessary.
The Bombay high court has refused to grant pre-arrest bail to a man booked for selling substandard goods using the name, trademark and license number of a reputed company that manufactured high density polyethylene pipes used for irrigation purposes.
The court held that as the accused had blatantly violated trademark and copyright provisions, had also resorted to cheating by getting sub-standard goods manufactured and inducing people into buying them by passing them off as that of a reputed company, his custodial interrogation was necessary.
A single judge bench of justice Sarang Kotwal while hearing the anticipatory bail application of Piyush Ranipa was informed that the applicant had been booked by Mohol police station at Solapur for offences punishable under various section of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the Copyright Act, 1957, and Trade Marks Act, 1999, in December 2020. The complaint was lodged by the zonal manager of the pipe manufacturing company after he intercepted a consignment of pipes and found that the name, trademark and even license number of his company were used to market sub-standard pipes.
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