law: Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999
  66. Suit for
  
  infringement, etc., to be instituted before district court.-
  1.  No
  
  suit,-
  a.   for the infringement
  
  of a registered geographical indication; or
  b.   relating to any right
  
  in a registered geographical indication; or
  c.   for passing of
  
  arising out of the use by the defendant of any geographical indication which is
  
  identical with or deceptively similar to the geographical indication relating
  
  to the plaintiff, whether registered or unregistered, shall be instituted in
  
  any court inferior to a district court having jurisdiction to try the suit.
  1.  
  2.  For
  
  the purpose of clauses (a) and (b) of sub-section (1), a "district court
  
  having jurisdiction'' shall, notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of
  
  Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908), or any other law for the time being in
  
  force, include a district court within the local limits of whose jurisdiction,
  
  at the time of the institution of the suit or other proceeding, the person
  
  instituting the suit or proceeding, or, where there are more than one such
  
  persons any of them, actually and voluntarily resides or carries on business or
  
  personally works for gain.
  Explanation.- For the purposes of
  
  sub-section (2), "person'' includes the registered proprietor and the
  
  authorised user.