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Court in its recent judgment dismissed an application to restrain rival coaching institutes from advertising, claiming credit over the success of one of the students who qualified for JEE (Mains), 2023. Court observed that the success of a child is attributable to his infinite efforts and dragging him into litigation for personal gain would jeopardize his interests and efforts towards his goal.
The Delhi High Court on June 12, 2023, dismissed an application by FIITJEE coaching Institute to restrain respondents from claiming reward over a student’s selection in the prestigious IIT entrance exam.
The Court observed that the success of any student is the result of his hard work and infinite efforts put into the goal he has set to achieve. "Dragging him into litigation driven by commercial interest between two competing institutes is an insult to such efforts and cannot be permitted," said the court.
Justice Chandra Dhari Singh, while dismissing the application, opined, “The institute is only apprehensive that certain time that the student has spent in with them will not be rewarded by way of commercial accreditation and validation, which in my considered view does warrant a relief in the form of temporary injunction as stipulated under Order XXXIX of the CPC… The institutions like the plaintiff intake thousands of students every year who appear for competitive examinations and often the students may decide to drop or discontinue with the coaching. There is no reason strong enough in favour of the plaintiff which would invite the grant of an injunction by Court under Order XXXIX Rules 1 and 2 of the CPC, when the plaintiff has failed to satisfy the tests settled in law.”
Brief Background
The plaintiff in the present case sought a permanent and mandatory injunction declaring that defendant no. 6 had excelled in the JEE (Mains), 2023 due to coaching imparted by them, from May, 2019 to October, 2022.
The defendant no. 6 had opted for the Four Year Classroom Program for IIT JEE, offered by the plaintiff institute and enrolled himself on November 1, 2018 at the Ghaziabad centre.
In January 2023, the results of the JEE (Mains) were declared and the plaintiff was thereafter aggrieved that the defendants no. 1 to 5 were claiming credit for the result of defendant no. 6.
Counsel on behalf of the plaintiff submitted that the defendants had actually not imparted any significant training to defendant no. 6 and it was the plaintiff’s training and education which led to the success of defendant no. 6 in the JEE Mains. On the contrary, counsel for the opposite party submitted that there was no cause of action arising against the defendants which would warrant interference from the Court.
Case Title: FIITJEE Limited v. Allen Education and Management Services | IA 9975 of 2023 in CS (COMM.) 331/2023
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