24-IA-509-2025.doc IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION COMMERCIAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS SUIT NO.43 OF 2025 WITH INTERIM APPLICATION NO.509 OF 2025 IN COMMERCIAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS SUIT NO.43 OF 2025 Unilever Plc., & Anr. ...Plaintiffs/Applicants Versus Devesh Sehgal & Ors. ...Defendants WITH LEAVE PETITION (L) NO.15773 OF 2022 IN COMMERCIAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS SUIT NO.43 OF 2025 Unilever Plc., & Anr. ...Petitioners Versus Devesh Sehgal & Ors. ...Respondents WITH COURT RECEIVER REPORT NO.177 OF 2022 WITH INTERIM APPLICATION (L) NO.15776 OF 2022 IN COMMERCIAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS SUIT (L) NO.15765 OF 2022 Unilever Plc., & Anr. ...Plaintiffs Versus Ashok Kumar ...Defendant (Unknown Person/s) WITH COURT RECEIVER REPORT NO.225 OF 2022 WITH Arjun 1 ARJUN VITTHAL KUDHEKAR Digitally signed by ARJUN VITTHAL KUDHEKAR Date: 2026.09.29 13:19:04 +0530 24-IA-509-2025.doc INTERIM APPLICATION (L) NO.15776 OF 2022 IN COMMERCIAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS SUIT (L) NO.15765 OF 2022 Unilever Plc., & Anr. ...Plaintiffs Versus Ashok Kumar ...Defendant (Unknown Person/s) —————— Ms. Laher Shah a/w Saieraje Patil & Ishita Maheshwari i/b Laher Shah, for the Plaintiffs. 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 Plaintiffs. 2. None appears for the Defendants despite service. LEAVE PETITION (L) NO.15773 OF 2022 3. Inspite of service, none appears for the Defendants. The Defendants have not even filed reply. 4. Accordingly, the contentions raised in the Leave Petition have remained controverted. 5. Perused the Plaint and the Leave Petition. 6. For the reasons set out in Leave Petition (L) No.15773 of 2022, the same is allowed in terms of prayer clause (a). Arjun 2 24-IA-509-2025.doc INTERIM APPLICATION NO.509 OF 2025 7. A learned learned Single Judge by Order dated 17th May 2022 has already granted ad-interim relief in terms of prayer clauses (a), (b), (d) and (e). 8. As the Leave Petition is allowed and no Reply has been filed to the Interim Application, for the reasons set out in Order dated 17th May 2022, Interim Application No.509 of 2025 is allowed in terms of prayer clauses (a) to (e). COMMERCIAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS SUIT NO.43 OF 2025 9. Ms. Shah, learned Counsel for the Plaintiff, states that the ad- interim Order is operating since 17th May 2022. The Court Receiver has been appointed and the Court Receiver has executed the said Order. She, therefore, submits that the Suit be decreed in terms of the Order dated 17th May 2022 and this Order passed in Interim Application No.509 of 2025. 10. Accordingly, the Commercial Intellectual Property Rights Suit No.43 of 2025 is decreed in terms of the Orders passed in Interim Application No.509 of 2025. 11. Refund of Court fees as per rules. 12. As the Commercial Intellectual Property Rights Suit is disposed of, the Court Receiver stands discharged without passing accounts, subject Arjun 3 24-IA-509-2025.doc 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.177 of 2022 and Court Receiver Report No.225 of 2022 stands disposed of. 13. In view of disposal of Commercial Intellectual Property Rights Suit No.43 of 2025, nothing survives in the Interim Applications, if any, and the same are also disposed of. [Madhav J. Jamdar, J.] Arjun 4