India, May 29 -- The Delhi High Court (HC) has imposed a fine of Rs.30 Lakh on big tech giant Google for violating the trademark of sanitaryware major Hindware.

In an order dated May 26, a single-judge bench of Justice Mini Pushkarna found that the big tech major allowed other companies to bid on the Hindware keyword on Google Ads, thereby infringing upon the sanitaryware giant's trademark.

Simply put, when users searched terms like "Hindware" or allied keywords like "Hindware Sanitary", its competitors' websites appeared as the first search result above Hindware's own. In its plea, Hindware had argued this constituted unfair competition and trademark dilution.

The HC has also permanently restrained Google LLC and Google India from usi...