New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday reserved its decision on Dabur India’s plea seeking an interim injunction against Patanjali Ayurved’s latest advertisement, which allegedly has portrayed all other Chyawanprash products as “dhoka”.

During the hearing, a single-judge Bench of Justice Tejas Karia questioned Patanjali on how it could brand every other Chyawanprash in the market as fraud while projecting its own formulation as the sole “truth”.

“You can say others are inferior. But you cannot call them ‘dhoka’. How can you call all other chyawanprash ‘dhoka’? You can say they are inferior, but you can’t call them fraud. Is there no other word available in the dictionary which can be used other than ‘dhoka’,” Justice Karia remarked.

Dabur, which holds over 60 per cent of the Chyawa

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