New Delhi, Sept. 11 -- The Delhi High Court has refused to grant interim relief to the Peruvian Embassy, which sought to halt the processing of Chile's application for recognition of 'Chilean pisco' in India, marking the latest development in a decades-long tussle between the two South American neighbours over the right to sell the continent's prized pisco brandy in India.

A division bench of Justices C. Hari Shankar and Om Prakash Shukla declined to stay a single-bench order from July that curtailed Peru's exclusive rights over the spirit in India and directed that the geographical indication (GI) mark, previously registered for Peru as 'pisco', be changed to 'Peruvian pisco'.

The plea was argued by Peru's senior counsel Neeraj Kishan ...