Madras High Court

Puri Connects Llp vs Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited on 13 October, 2022

                                                                      C.S(Comm. Div.)No.172 of 2022

                                   IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

                                                      Dated: 13.10.2022

                                                          CORAM

                                        THE HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE M.SUNDAR

                                               C.S(Comm. Div.)No.172 of 2022
                                                           and
                                                 O.A.Nos.521 & 522 of 2022

                     Puri Connects LLP
                     A 123, Road No.70,
                     Journalist Colony, Jubilee Hills
                     Hyderabad, Telangana 500 033
                     and also branch office at
                     Thirumalai Pillai Road,
                     T.Nagar, Chennai
                     Tamil Nadu 600 107
                     Represented by its Authorised Signatory
                     Ms.Surdeep Kaur Uppal                                            .. Plaintiff

                                                             Vs.

                     1.

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited Bharat Sanchar Bhavan Harish Chandra Mathur Lane Janpath, New Delhi - 110 001.

2. Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd 5th Floor, Mahanagar Door Sanchar Sadan 9, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi - 110 003.

3. Bharti Airtel Limited Bharti Crescent, 1, Nelson Mandela Road Vasant Kunj, Phase II New Delhi - 110 070.

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4. Aircel Cellular Limited 5th Floor, Spencer Plaza 769, Anna Salai Chennai-600 002.

5. Hathway Cable & Datacom Limited 05/806, 8th Floor, Windsor Off. CST Road, Kalina Santacruz (East) Mumbai - 400 098.

6. Tata Communication Limited VSB, Mahatma Gandhi Road Fort Mumbai Maharastra 400 001.

7. Vodafone India Limited Suman Tower, Plot No.18, Sector 11, Gandhinagar Gujarat 382011.

8. Idea Cellular Limited Suman Tower, Plot No.18, Sector 11, Gandhinagar Gujarat 382011.

9. Reliance Communications Infrastructure Limited Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City Navi Mumbai 400 709.

10. Tata Teleservices Ltd 10th Floor, Tower I, Jeevan Bharati 124 Connaught Circus New Delhi - 110 001.

11. GTPL Hathway Ltd 202, 2nd Floor, Sahajanand Shopping Centre, Opp. Swaminarayan Temple Shahibaugh, Ahmedabad - 380004.

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12. Tikona Digital Networks Private Limited Office 3A, 3rd Floor LBS Marg, Bhandup (West) Mumbai - 400 078.

13. BG Broadband India Private Limited Plot No.54, Marol Industrial Cooperative Area Off. Andheri Kurla Road Andheri (East), Mumbai - 400 059.

14. Sify Technologies Limited 2nd Floor, TIDEL PARK No.4, Canal Bank Road Chennai-600 113.

15. Siti Broadband Services Pvt. Ltd., B-10, Lawrence Road, Industrial Area New Delhi North West DL 110035 IN.

16. You Broadband & Cable India Ltd., 2nd and 3rd Floor, IQARA Centre, Near Gujarat Gas Circle, Adajan Hazaria Road Surat 395009.

17. Asianet Satellite Communications 2A, II Floor, Leela Infopark Technopark Limited, Kazhakkoottam Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala - 695 581.

18. Data Infosys Limited Station Road, Durgapura Jaipur 302018.

19. Readylink Internet Services Limited Galazy, Plot No.7, Sakhthi Colony

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RK Puram, Ganpathy Coimbatore - 641 006.

20. Opto Network Private Limited B-86, Sector - 14 Noida - 201 301 Uttar Pradesh, India.

21. Nettlinx Limited 5-9-22,3rd Floor My Home Sarovar Plaza Secretariat Road, Saifabad Hyderabad - 500 004.

22. City Online Services Limited 701, 7th Floor Aditya Trade Center, Ameerpet Hyderabad - 500 038.

23. Pioneer eLabs Limited Pioneer Towers, 17th Floor Plot No.16, Survey No.64, Software Unit Layout APIIK, i-Tech City, Madhapur Hyderabad 500 080.

24. AT&T Global Network Service India Pvt. Ltd., 13th Floor, 1305-06 Mohan Dev House 13, Tolstoy Marg, New Delhi - 110 001.

25. Nextgen Communications Limited Thachil Complex No.10, 3rd Floor, Raja Annamalai Road, Saibaba Mission Post Coimbatore - 641 011, Tamil Nadu, India.

26. Southern Online Bio Technologies Limited Flat No.A3, 3rd Floor, Office Block

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Samrat Complex, Saifabad, Hyderabad - 500 004.

27. MyNet Services India Private Limited #12, 1 Floor, IV Cross Gandhipuram, Pallipalayam Erode - 638 006.

28. Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd., 9th Floor, Maker Chambers - IV 222, Nariman Point Mumbai - 400 021, India.

29. LimrasEronet Broadband Services Private Limited Doshi Towers, First Floor #156, Poonamallee High Road, Kilpauk, Chennai-600 010.

30. RS Broadband Service India Private Limited Doshi Towers, First Floor Old #156, New # 205, Poonamallee High Road, Kilpauk, Chennai-600 010.

31. Spectra ISP Networks Pvt. Ltd., Plot No.21-22, 3rd Floor Udyog Vihar, Phase IV Gurgaon - 122 015.

32. Pulse Telesystems Private Limited 51/52, Real Towers 3rd Floor, Royapettah High Road Mylapore, Chennai-600 004.

33. EsselShyam Communications Ltd., 1121, Hemkunt Chambers, 11th Floor, 89, Nehru Place, New Delhi - 110 019, India.

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34. Five Network Solution (I) Ltd., 22/2, Plot No.275-B Gurunanak School Compound Sion (West), Mumbai - 400 022, India

35. Atria Convergence Technologies Limited No.17/68, Chevalier Shivaji Ganesan Street New Colony, T.Nagar, Chennai - 600 017.

36. Action Lane No.16, No.1A Kalpana Apartments 1st Street, Above Padmanaba Nagar Electricity Board Adyar, Chennai-600 020.

37. Jak Communications Pvt. Ltd., No.4, J Block, Near 6th Avenue Anna Nagar East Chennai-600 102.

38. C32 Cable Net Pvt. Ltd., Old No.284, New No.204, Shanmugam Salai, Royapettah Chennai-600 014.

39. Thamizhaga Cable TV Communications Pvt Ltd., No.9A/5, Club Road, Near Mittai Shop Chetpet, Chennai-600 031.

40. Thiru Nagar Satellite Vision Pvt. Ltd., No.149/80, Vijaya Theatre Complex Behind Kasi Theatre Pillaiyar Koil Street, Jafferkhanpet, Chennai-600 083. .. Defendants

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This Civil Suit is preferred, under Order VII Rule 1 of Civil Procedure Code, 1908 and Order IV Rule 1 of the Original Side Rules 1956 read with Sections 51, 52, 55 and 62 of the Copyright Act, 1957 and the Copyright (Amendment) Act, 2012 and Section 7 of the Commercial Courts, Commercial Division and Commercial Appellate Division of High Courts Act, No.4 of 2016 praying

(a) A permanent injunction restraining the defendants 1 to 35 from infringing the cinematographic film "Liger" and said work be directed to block all websites / web pages and future websites (including their prefix and suffix) and those non-compliant websites mentioned in Schedule-A hosting contents that relate to plaintiff's copyright protected cinematographic film "Liger" in any manner, thereby restraining the unauthorised copying, transmission, communication or make available or display or release or show or upload or download or exhibit or play and / or in any manner communicate in and /or through their services immediate of receipt of details of such infringing websites / web pages in writing;

(b) A permanent injunction restraining the defendants 36 to 40 from infringing the cinematographic film "Liger" by themselves, their partners/proprietor/directors, heirs, representatives, successors in business, assigns, distributors, agents, servants or anyone claiming through them or under them from infringing the plaintiff's copyrighted cinematographic film "Liger" by copying, recording, reproducing or allowing camcording or allowing others to transmit, communicate or make available or distributing or duplicating or displaying or releasing or

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showing or uploading or downloading or exhibiting or playing and / or in any manner whatsoever from communicating the cinematographic film "Liger" and said work without a proper license from the plaintiff or in any other manner which would violate / infringe the plaintiff's copyrighted cinematographic film "Liger" through different mediums including but not limited to CD, DVD, Blu-ray disc, VCD, cable TV, direct to home services, internet services, multimedia messaging services, pen drives, hard drives, tapes, DAS, satellite, Conditional Access Systems or in any other medium / manner whatsoever;

For Plaintiff : Mr.T.Pandiyan and Mr.A.M.Venkatakrishnan of M/s.P.K.Law Firm (Law Firm)

JUDGMENT

Mr.T.Pandiyan, learned counsel of M/s.P K Law Firm (Law Firm)

for the sole plaintiff company who is before this Commercial Division,

submits that he has instructions from the plaintiff company to withdraw

the captioned suit. Saying so, learned counsel has made an endorsement

in the case file, a scanned reproduction of which is as follows:

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2. The aforementioned endorsement made in the case file is

reiterated by the learned counsel in the hearing.

3. In the light of the aforementioned endorsement and the

reiteration of the same in the hearing, captioned Civil Suit is dismissed as