21-IA(L)-24372-2023.doc IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION COMMERCIAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS SUIT NO.241 OF 2025 Hindustan Unilever Limited ...Plaintiff Versus Mukesh Mewada ...Defendants A.K.A. Bablu Mewada & Ors. WITH INTERIM APPLICATION (L) NO.24372 OF 2023 IN COMMERCIAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS SUIT NO.241 OF 2025 Hindustan Unilever Limited ...Applicant IN THE MATTER BETWEEN Hindustan Unilever Limited ...Plaintiff Versus Mukesh Mewada ...Defendants A.K.A. Bablu Mewada & Ors. WITH INTERIM APPLICATION (L) NO.1260 OF 2025 IN COMMERCIAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS SUIT NO.241 OF 2025 Hindustan Unilever Limited ...Applicant Versus Mukesh Mewada ...Defendants A.K.A. Bablu Mewada & Ors. WITH COURT RECEIVER REPORT NO.273 OF 2023 IN INTERIM APPLICATION (L) NO.311 OF 2023 IN Arjun 1 ARJUN VITTHAL KUDHEKAR Digitally signed by ARJUN VITTHAL KUDHEKAR Date: 2026.09.29 13:50:45 +0530 21-IA(L)-24372-2023.doc COMMERCIAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS SUIT NO.241 OF 2025 Hindustan Unilever Limited ...Plaintiff Versus Ashok Kumar ...Defendant/s WITH COURT RECEIVER REPORT NO.390 OF 2023 IN INTERIM APPLICATION (L) NO.311 OF 2023 IN COMMERCIAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS SUIT NO.241 OF 2025 Hindustan Unilever Limited ...Plaintiff Versus Ashok Kumar ...Defendant/s WITH INTERIM APPLICATION (L) NO.311 OF 2023 IN COMMERCIAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS SUIT NO.241 OF 2025 Hindustan Unilever Limited ...Applicant IN THE MATTER BETWEEN Hindustan Unilever Limited ...Plaintiff Versus Mukesh Mewada ...Defendants A.K.A. Bablu Mewada & Ors. WITH LEAVE PETITION (L) NO.308 OF 2023 IN COMMERCIAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS SUIT NO.241 OF 2025 Hindustan Unilever Limited ...Petitioner Versus Ashok Kumar ...Respondent/s Arjun 2 21-IA(L)-24372-2023.doc —————— Ms. Laher Shah a/w Saieraje Patil & Ishita Maheshwari i/b Laher Shah, for the Plaintiff. Mrs. S. S. Chipkar, Master (Adm.), Court Receiver, High Court, Bombay, present. —————— Coram: Madhav J. Jamdar, J. Date: September 24, 2026 P.C.: 1. Heard Ms. Shah, learned Counsel appearing for the Plaintiff. 2. Ms. Shah, learned Counsel for the Plaintiff, submits that in this case there are a total of 9 Defendants. The Plaintiff has already settled the dispute with Defendant Nos.3 and 8. She submits that a learned Single Judge by Order dated 10th January 2023 has already granted ad- interim relief in terms of prayer clauses (a), (b), (d) and (e). She submits that although the Defendants have been served, none appears for the Defendants except that Defendant Nos.3 and 8 have appeared and settled the dispute with the Plaintiff. She submits that the Suit be decreed in terms of the Order dated 10th January 2023. LEAVE PETITION (L) NO.308 OF 2023 3. As set out herein above, none appears for the Defendants despite service. No reply has been filed on behalf of the Defendants. 4. Perused the Plaint and the Leave Petition. 5. For the reasons set out in Leave Petition (L) No.308 of 2023, the same is allowed in terms of prayer clause (a). Arjun 3 21-IA(L)-24372-2023.doc INTERIM APPLICATION (L) NO.311 OF 2023 6. A learned learned Single Judge by Order dated 10th January 2023 has already granted ex-parte ad-interim relief in terms of prayer clauses (a), (b), (d) and (e). 7. As the leave is granted and as the contentions raised in the Plaint and the Interim Application have remained uncontroverted, for the reasons set out in the Order dated 10th January 2023, Interim Application (L) No.311 of 2023 is disposed of in terms of prayer clauses (a) to (e). COMMERCIAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS SUIT NO.241 OF 2025 8. Ms. Shah, learned Counsel for the Plaintiff, states that as the ad- interim relief in terms of prayer clauses (a), (b), (d) and (e) has already been granted by a learned Single Judge by Order dated 10th January 2023 and as this Court has granted interim relief in terms of prayer clauses (a) to (e), the Suit be decreed in terms of the Orders which are passed in Interim Application. 9. Accordingly, Commercial Intellectual Property Rights Suit No.241 of 2025 is decreed against Defendant Nos.1, 2, 4 to 7 and 9 in terms of Orders passed in Interim Application (Lodging) No.311 of 2023. 10. Refund of Court fees as per rules. 11. As the Commercial Intellectual Property Rights Suit is disposed of, Arjun 4 21-IA(L)-24372-2023.doc the Court Receiver stands discharged without passing accounts, subject to payment of costs, charges and expenses to be paid by the Plaintiff within two weeks from the demand being made by the Office of the Court Receiver. As the Court Receiver stands discharged, Court Receiver Report No.273 of 2023 and Court Receiver Report No.390 of 2023 stands disposed of. 12. In view of disposal of Commercial Intellectual Property Rights Suit No.241 of 2025, nothing survives in the Interim Applications, if any, and the same are also disposed of. [Madhav J. Jamdar, J.] Arjun 5