Swear Healthcare Pvt. Ltd. is a surgical glove manufacturing company in Dholpur, Rajasthan, and it now has one court case which has been pretty severe for the company. While the company had produced high-quality medical-grade gloves for many years, it now gets entangled with lots of court orders which have indeed brought functionality to a complete standstill. Cases against company directors Sanjeev Gaur and Aradhana Gaur involved charges of intellectual property theft, fraud, and forgery.
There were some legal hassles since Swear Healthcare got sued for stealing designs of glove manufacturing machines from Noida-based Anondita Healthcare, which is one of the leaders of this industry in healthcare equipment. For the company, proprietary designs of glove manufacturing machines are a crucial one. Thus, Anondita Healthcare did so before the Commercial Court of Noida to invoke the injunction suit against Swear Healthcare in this case.
In this case also, both courts held that Swear Healthcare was restrained from using the design taken away for manufacturing purposes.
Upon this order from both the courts in Noida and Dholpur, the sealing of the manufacturing machines of Swear Healthcare was undertaken. This practically sealed the affairs of the company and put an end to its business activities. It was one of the toughest setbacks that the company ever had to bear as it brought about the shutdown of business operations through the very same machines that were being used for the different business activities of the company.
Swear Healthcare had no intention of letting the judgment of the court mark an end to itself. Such extreme extents were taken by the directors of the company and its employees, namely, Sanjeev and Aradhana Gaur, Rajesh Kumar, Ashutosh Tiwari, and Ranjeet Kumar Yadav who opposed the judgment. They appealed in the Allahabad High Court. There was another controversy for them there. According to the report, it was said that the paper sported a forged signature by the director of Anondita Healthcare; hence, it had all the ingredients of fraud and forgery.
It was by that time that it had already managed to file a First Information Report (FIR) against the directors of Swear Healthcare and its employees before it came to the notice of Anondita Healthcare. Inquiry in the follow-up process exposed the identity of Sanjeev Gaur and his accomplices, who were the people handling the process of appeal. The case was also very susceptible to inflation after the arrest of Sanjeev Gaur. The case is still pending. Swear Healthcare seriously suffered due to this intellectual property theft coupled with forgery.
One of the few cases is considered to have served as a huge example of the catastrophic consequences that corporate malpractice can bring about, especially in the very scrutinized industry of health care. Swear Healthcare stole internal machine designs from a competitor and was subsequently left to pay high legal and monetary costs. The act of trying to forge legal documents solely for their own gain speaks to how far some companies will go to avoid getting caught out.
The future for Swear Healthcare remains uncertain as its legal proceedings are still in the offing, with the case at hand appearing more likely to bring more penalties and sanctions where the machines have been sealed and its directors investigated. Blemished the past history of the company were Sanjeev Gaur, Aradhana Gaur, and their respective acquaintances who tainted it in the process bringing shame too raising from the healthcare industry and important questions about the ethics of business.
Ongoing Swear Healthcare Pvt. Ltd. is a harsh reminder of the potentially far-reaching implications incurred by the lowering of ethics and legal compliance in the name of business profitability.
Sources: Swear Healthcare Pvt. Ltd.: Legal Battles and Accusations of Forgery
Anondita Healthcare Files Case Against Swear Healthcare Over ‘Copying Of Designs’