India, July 3 -- The Delhi high court on Thursday restrained Patanjali Ayurved from running allegedly disparaging advertisements against consumer giant Dabur's Chawanprash.

In its advertisements featuring its founder Ramdev, Patanjali implies that only its Chawanprash is "original" and "authentic", while the product manufactured by other manufacturers, having a 60% market share, is ordinary. "Applications are allowed," a bench of Justice Mini Pushkarna said.

Dabur moved the court seeking to restrain Patanjali Ayurved from running the advertisements. Its application was filed in Dabur's suit against Patanjali, alleging that its claims labelling Chyawanprash products manufactured by it and others as "ordinary" implied that the same were i...