Madras High Court
Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited vs Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited on 14 June, 2024
Author: P.Velmurugan
Bench: P.Velmurugan
Civil Suit (Comm.Div.) No. 67 of 2024
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS
Dated : 14.06.2024
CORAM
THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE P.VELMURUGAN
Civil Suit (Comm.Div.) No. 67 of 2024
and
O.A.Nos.227 and 228 of 2024
Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited
18th Floor, A Wing, Marathon Futurex,
N.M.Joshi Marg, Lower Parel,
Mumbai 400 013,
and also branch office at
No.33B, Olympia Platina, 2nd Floor,
SIDCO Industries Estate,
Chennai – 600 032,
Represented by its Power Agent
Mr.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 Limited
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Bharti Crescent, 1,
Nelson Mandela Road,
Vasanth Kunj, 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
Maharastra - 400 001.
6. Vodafone India Limited
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 1, Jeevan Bharati
124, Connaught Circus
New Delhi 110 001.
9. GTPL Hathway Ltd
202, 2nd Floor, Sahajanand
Shopping Centre, Opp. Swaminarayan Temple
Shahibaugh, Ahmedabad - 380 004.
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 110 033 IN
14. You Broadband and Cable India Limited
2nd and 3rd Floor, IQARA Centre
Near Gujarat Gas Circle
Adajan - Hazaria Road
Surat – 395 009.
15. Asianet Satellite Communications
2A, II Floor, Leela Infopark
Technopark Limited, Kazhakkoottam
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala 695 581.
16. Date Infosys Limited
Station Road, Durgapura
Jaipur 302 018.
17. Readylink Internet Services Limited
Galazy, Plot No.7, Sakthi Colony
RK Puram, Ganapathy
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Coimbatore - 641 006.
18. Nettlinx Limited
5-9-22 3rd Floor,
My Home Sarovar Plaza
Secretariat Road, Saifabad
Hyderabad - 500 004.
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& 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 Information Limited
9th Floor Maker Chambers IV
222, Nariman Point, Mumbai – 400 021.
24. LimrasEronet Broadband Services Private Limited
Doshi Towers, First Floor
# 156, Poonamalle 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,
Poonamalle 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.
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.
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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. .. Defendants
Civil Suit has been filed Order VII Rule 1 of Civil Procedure Code,
1908 and Order IV Rule 1 of High Court 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 Act, 2015 prays for judgment and decree :
a) A permanent injunction restraining the defendants 1 to 29 or any
other person or entity from infringing the cinematographic film
''Swatantra Veer Savarkar'' 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' copyright protected
cinematographic film '' Swatantra Veer Savarkar'' in any manner, thereby
restraining the unauthorised copying, transmission, communication or
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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
'Swatantra Veer Savarkar'' by themselves, their partners / proprietor /
Authorised Signatories, heirs, representatives, successors in business,
assigns, distributors, agents, servants or anyone claiming through them or
under them from infringing the plaintiff copyrighted cinematographic
film ''Swatantra Veer Savarkar'' by copying, recording, reproducing or
allowing Cam cording or allowing others to transmit, communicate or
make available or distributing or duplicating or displaying or releasing or
showing or uploading or downloading exhibiting or playing and / or in
any manner whatsoever from communicating the cinematographic film
''Swatantra Veer Savarkar'' and said work without a proper license from
the plaintiff or in any other manner which would violate / infringe the
plaintiff copyrighted cinematographic film ''Swatantra Veer Savarkar''
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.
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For Plaintiff : Mr.S.Deepak
for M/s.P.K Law Firm
For Defendants : Ms.Amutha Ganesh for D8
Mr.P.J.Rishikesh for D3
No appearance
for D1, D2, D4 to D7 and D9 to D33
JUDGMENT
The learned counsel appearing for plaintiff seeks permission of this Court to withdraw the present civil suit and he has also made an endorsement to that effect.
2. In view of the submission and endorsement made by the learned counsel for the plaintiff, this Civil Suit is dismissed as withdrawn.
Consequently, connected applications are closed. There shall be no order as to costs.
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