Madras High Court
Dharma Productions Pvt. Ltd vs Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited on 18 September, 2024
Author: Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy
Bench: Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy
C.S.(Comm.Div.) No.125 of 2024
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS
DATED: 18.09.2024
CORAM
THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE SENTHILKUMAR RAMAMOORTHY
C.S.(Comm.Div.) No.125 of 2024
and O.A.Nos.475 & 476 of 2024
Dharma Productions Pvt. Ltd.
201 & 202, 2nd Floor, Supreme Chambers,
Off Veera Desai Road, 17/18 Shah Industrial Estate,
Andheri (W), Mumbai 400053, India
Branch Office at:
No.225, Opposite Spencers Plaza,
Anna Salai, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600 002
Represented by its Authorised Signatory
Mrs.Rakhee Bajpai ... 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.
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3.Bharti Airtel Limited
Bharti Crescent, 1, Nelson Mandela Road,
VasantKunj, Phase II, New Delhi 110 070.
4.Hathway Cable & Datacom Limited,
05/806, 8th Floor, Windsor
Off. CST Road, Kalina
Santacruz (East)
Mumbai 400 098.
5.Tata Communication Limited
Vsb, Mahatma Gandhi Road Fort Mumbai,
Maharashtra 400 001.
6.Vodafone India,
Suman Tower, Plot No.18,
Sector – 11, Gandhinagar
Gujarat 382 011.
7.IDEA CELLULAR LIMITED
Suman Tower, Plot No.18, Sector 11,
Gandhinagar, Gujarat - 382 011.
8.TATA TELESERVICES LTD
10th Floor, Tower I, Jeevan Bharati, 124,
Connaught Circus,
New Delhi 110001.
9.GTPL HATHWAY LTD
202, 2nd Floor, Sahajanand, Shopping Centre,
Opp.Swaminarayan Temple, Shahibaugh,
Ahmedabad - 380004.
10.TIKONA DIGITAL NETWORKS PRIVATE LIMITED,
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Office 3A, 3rd Floor, LBS Marg,
Bhandup (West),
Mumbai - 400 078.
11.BG BROADBAND INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED
Plot No.54, Marol Industrial Cooperative Area,
Off. Andheri Kurla Road, Andheri (East),
Mumbai 400 059.
12.SIFY TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
2nd Floor, TIDEL PARK, no.4,
Canal Bank Road, Chennai - 600 113.
13.SITI BROADBAND SERVICES PVT.LTD
B-10, Lawrence Road, Industrial Area,
New Delhi North West DL 110033 IN.
14.YOU BROADBAND AND CABLE INDIA LTD
2nd and 3rd Floor, IQARA Centre,
Near Gujarat Gas Circle,
Adajan Hazaria Road,
Surat - 395009
15.ASIANET SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS
2A, II Floor, LeelaInfopark,
Technopark Limited,
Kazhakkoottam,
Thiruvananthapuram,
Kerala - 695581.
16.DATA INFOSYS LIMITED
Station Road, Durgapuram,
Jaipur 302018.
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17.READYLINK INTERNET SERVICES LIMITED
Galaxy, Plot No.7, Sakhthi Colony, RK Puram,
Ganpathy, Coimbatore - 641006.
18.NETTLINX LIMITED
5-9-22, 3rd Floor, My Home Sarovar Plaza,
Secretariat Road, Saifabad,
Hyderabad - 500004.
19.CITY ONLINE SERVICES LIMITED
701, 7th Floor, Aditya Trade Center,
Ameerpet, Hyderabad - 500 038.
20.PIONEER eLABS LIMITED
Pioneer Towers, 17th Floor, Plot No.16,
Survey No.64, Software Unit Layout,
APIIk, i-Tech City, Madhapur, Hyderabad 500 080.
21.AT AND T GLOBAL NETWORK SERVICE INDIA PVT LTD
13th Floor, 1305-06, Mohan Dev House, 13,
Tolstoy Marg, New Delhi - 110 001.
22.SOUTHERN ONLINE BIO TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
Flat No.A3, 3rd Floor, Office Block,
Samrat Complex, Saifabad, Hyderabad - 500 004.
23.RELIANCE JIO INFOCOMM LIMITED
9th Floor Maker Chambers IV, 222,
Nariman Point, Mumbai - 400 021.
24.LIMRAS ERONET BROADBAND SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED,
Doshi Towers, First Floor, #156,
Poonamallee High Road, Kilpauk, Chennai - 600 010.
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25.RS BROADBAND SERVICE INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED
Doshi Towers, First Floor, Old # 156,
New # 205, Poonamallee High Road,
Kilpauk, Chennai 600 010.
26.SPECTRA ISP NETWORKS PVT LTD
Plot No.21-22, 3rd Floor, Udyog Vihar,
Phase IV, Gurgaon - 122 015.
27.ESSELSHYAM COMMUNICATIONS LTD
1121, Hemkunt Chambers, 11th Floor, 89,
Nehru Place New Delhi - 110 019 India.
28.FIVE NETWORK SOLUTION (I) LTD
22/2, Plot No. 275-B, Gurunanak School Compound,
Sion (West), Mumbai 400 022, India.
29.ATRIA CONVERGENCE TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
No.17/68, Chevalier Shivaji Ganesan Street,
New Colony, T.Nagar, Chennai - 600 017.
30.Action Lane
No.16, No.1A Kalpana Apartments,
1st Street, Above Padmanaba Nagar Electricity Board
Adyar, Chennai 600 020.
31.Jak Communications Pvt Ltd
No.4 J Block, Near 6th Avenue,
Anna Nagar East,
Chennai 600 102.
32.C32 Cable Net Pvt. Ltd.
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Old No.284, New No.204,
Shanmugam Salai, Royapettah,
Chennai 600 014.
33.Thamizhaga Cable TV Communication Pvt Ltd
No.9 A/5, Club Road, Near Mittai Shop,
Chetpet, Chennai 600 031. ... Defendants
PRAYER: Civil Suit (Commercial Division) filed under Order VII
Rule 1 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 And Order IV Rule 1 of O.S.Rules,
1956 Read With Sections 51, 52, 55 and 62 of the Copyrights Act, 1957
and the Copyright (Amendment) Act, 2012 and Section 7 of the
Commercial Courts Act, 2015, praying to grant a judgment and
decree on the following terms:-
(a) A permanent injunction restraining the Defendants 1 to 29
from infringing the cinematographic film “BAD NEWZ” and block
all websites / web pages and future websites (including their prefix
and suffix) and those Non-Complaint websites mentioned in
Schedule-A hosting contents that relate to plaintiff's copyright
protected cinematographic film “BAD NEWZ” in any manner,
thereby restraining the unauthorised copying, transmission,
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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 30 – 33
or any other person or entity from infringing the cinematographic
film “BAD NEWZ” 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 “BAD NEWZ” 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 showing or uploading or downloading or
exhibiting or playing and / or in any manner whatsoever from
communicating the cinematographic film “BAD NEWZ” and said
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Work without a proper license from the Plaintiff or in any other
manner which would violate / infringe the plaintiff's copyrighted
cinematographic film “BAD NEWZ” 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;
(c) For costs of the suit.
For Plaintiff : Mr.S.Deepak
for M/s.P.K.Law Firm
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JUDGMENT
Learned counsel for the plaintiff submits that he has been
instructed to withdraw the suit. He has made an endorsement for
withdrawal.
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2. Therefore, C.S.(Comm.Div.) No.125 of 2024 is dismissed as
withdrawn without any order as to costs. Consequently,
O.A.Nos.475 and 476 of 2024 are closed.
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Index : Yes / No
Internet : Yes / No
Neutral Citation: Yes / No
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