law: Trade Marks Act, 1999  
  134. Suit for infringement, etc., to be
  
  instituted before district Court.- 
  (1) No suit –
  (a) for the
  
  infringement of a registered trade mark, or
  (b) relating to any
  
  right in a registered trade mark, or
  (c) for passing off
  
  arising out of the use by the defendant of any trade mark which is identical
  
  with or deceptively similar to the plaintiff’s trade mark, whether registered
  
  or unregistered.
  Shall be instituted in any court inferior to a
  
  District Court having jurisdiction to try the suit.
  (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 person any of them, actually and
  
  voluntarily resides or carries on business or personally works for gain.
  Explanation.- For the purpose of
  
  sub-section (2), "person" includes the registered proprietor and the
  
  registered user.