New Delhi, Feb 18 (TIWN) The Delhi High Court has held that while some latitude is to be given for hyperbole and commendatory expression, there can be no license to anyone to denigrate the competitor while dealing with an advertisement issue between two coaching institutes.

A bench of Justice Asha Menon, hearing the lawsuit by FIITJEE against the defendant Vidya Mandir Classes and others, noted that the plaintiff and the defendants are business rivals, and compete for good students so that their effort in establishing a reputation of being a good coaching institute would be fortified.  Both sides would naturally seek to place in the public domain such aspects of their activities that would encourage students to come to their coaching institutes, she noted, but added that while engaging in advertising one's own products, care is to be exercised to avoid disparagement of anotheraYs products or denigration of the goodwill and reputation built by a competitor.