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C.S.(Comm.Div.) No.138 of 2024IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRASDATED: 20.09.2024CORAMTHE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE SENTHILKUMAR RAMAMOORTHYC.S.(Comm.Div.) No.138 of 2024and O.A.Nos.539 & 540 of 2024Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited18th Floor, A Wing, Marathon Futurex,N.M.Joshi Marg, Lower ParelMumbai 400 013And also branch office atNo.33B, Olympia Platina, 2nd Floor,SIDCO Industrial Estate,Chennai 600 032.Represented by its Power AgentMr.Akshay Mahadik ... 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 Limited1/10 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis C.S.(Comm.Div.) No.138 of 2024 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, Office 3A, 3rd Floor, LBS Marg, Bhandup (West), 2/10 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis C.S.(Comm.Div.) No.138 of 2024 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 - 39500915.ASIANET SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS 2A, II Floor, LeelaInfopark, Technopark Limited, Kazhakkoottam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala - 695581.16.DATA INFOSYS LIMITED Station Road, Durgapuram, Jaipur 302018.17.READYLINK INTERNET SERVICES LIMITED Galaxy, Plot No.7, Sakhthi Colony, RK Puram, Ganpathy, Coimbatore - 641006.3/10 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis C.S.(Comm.Div.) No.138 of 202418.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 - 600 010.25.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 LTD4/10 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis C.S.(Comm.Div.) No.138 of 2024 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. 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. ... DefendantsPRAYER: Civil Suit (Commercial Division) filed under Order VII 5/10 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis C.S.(Comm.Div.) No.138 of 2024Rule 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 “DHARMAVEER 2” 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 “DHARMAVEER 2” 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;6/10 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis C.S.(Comm.Div.) No.138 of 2024(b) A permanent injunction restraining the Defendants 30 – 33 or any other person or entity from infringing the cinematographic film “DHARMAVEER 2” 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 “DHARMAVEER 2” 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 “DHARMAVEER 2” 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 “DHARMAVEER 2” 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, 7/10 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis C.S.(Comm.Div.) No.138 of 2024Conditional 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**********JUDGMENTLearned counsel for the plaintiff submits that he has been instructed to withdraw the suit. He has made an endorsement for withdrawal.2. By taking note of the same, C.S.(Comm.Div.) No.138 of 2024 is dismissed as withdrawn without any order as to costs. Consequently, O.A.Nos.539 and 540 of 2024 are closed.20.09.2024rna8/10 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis C.S.(Comm.Div.) No.138 of 2024Index : Yes / NoInternet : Yes / NoNeutral Citation: Yes / NoSENTHILKUMAR RAMAMOORTHY,Jrna9/10 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis C.S.(Comm.Div.) No.138 of 2024C.S.(Comm.Div.) No.138 of 2024and O.A.Nos.539 & 540 of 202420.09.202410/10
C.S.(Comm.Div.) No.138 of 2024IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRASDATED: 20.09.2024CORAMTHE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE SENTHILKUMAR RAMAMOORTHYC.S.(Comm.Div.) No.138 of 2024and O.A.Nos.539 & 540 of 2024Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited18th Floor, A Wing, Marathon Futurex,N.M.Joshi Marg, Lower ParelMumbai 400 013And also branch office atNo.33B, Olympia Platina, 2nd Floor,SIDCO Industrial Estate,Chennai 600 032.Represented by its Power AgentMr.Akshay Mahadik ... 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 Limited1/10 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis C.S.(Comm.Div.) No.138 of 2024 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, Office 3A, 3rd Floor, LBS Marg, Bhandup (West), 2/10 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis C.S.(Comm.Div.) No.138 of 2024 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 - 39500915.ASIANET SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS 2A, II Floor, LeelaInfopark, Technopark Limited, Kazhakkoottam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala - 695581.16.DATA INFOSYS LIMITED Station Road, Durgapuram, Jaipur 302018.17.READYLINK INTERNET SERVICES LIMITED Galaxy, Plot No.7, Sakhthi Colony, RK Puram, Ganpathy, Coimbatore - 641006.3/10 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis C.S.(Comm.Div.) No.138 of 202418.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 - 600 010.25.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 LTD4/10 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis C.S.(Comm.Div.) No.138 of 2024 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. 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. ... DefendantsPRAYER: Civil Suit (Commercial Division) filed under Order VII 5/10 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis C.S.(Comm.Div.) No.138 of 2024Rule 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 “DHARMAVEER 2” 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 “DHARMAVEER 2” 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;6/10 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis C.S.(Comm.Div.) No.138 of 2024(b) A permanent injunction restraining the Defendants 30 – 33 or any other person or entity from infringing the cinematographic film “DHARMAVEER 2” 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 “DHARMAVEER 2” 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 “DHARMAVEER 2” 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 “DHARMAVEER 2” 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, 7/10 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis C.S.(Comm.Div.) No.138 of 2024Conditional 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**********JUDGMENTLearned counsel for the plaintiff submits that he has been instructed to withdraw the suit. He has made an endorsement for withdrawal.2. By taking note of the same, C.S.(Comm.Div.) No.138 of 2024 is dismissed as withdrawn without any order as to costs. Consequently, O.A.Nos.539 and 540 of 2024 are closed.20.09.2024rna8/10 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis C.S.(Comm.Div.) No.138 of 2024Index : Yes / NoInternet : Yes / NoNeutral Citation: Yes / NoSENTHILKUMAR RAMAMOORTHY,Jrna9/10 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis C.S.(Comm.Div.) No.138 of 2024C.S.(Comm.Div.) No.138 of 2024and O.A.Nos.539 & 540 of 202420.09.202410/10