Madras High Court
B.Srinivasan vs Bharath Sanchar Nigam Ltd on 21 April, 2016
Author: K.K.Sasidharan
Bench: K.K.Sasidharan
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS
DATED : 21.04.2016
CORAM
THE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE K.K.SASIDHARAN
C.S.No.143 of 2016,
O.A.No.165 and 166 of 2016
B.Srinivasan ....Plaintiffs
vs
1 Bharath Sanchar Nigam Ltd.
Bharat Sanchar Bhavan, Harish Chandra Mathur Lane,
Janpath, New Delhi 110 001.
2 Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd.,
Jeevan Bharti Tower -1, 124,
Connaught Circus, New Delhi 110 001
3 Bharti Airtel Limited
Bharti Crescent, I, Nelson Mandela Road,
Vasant Kunj, Phase II, New Delhi 110 070.
4 Aircel Cellular Ltd.
5th Floor, Spencer Plaza, 769 Anna Salai
Chennai 600 002.
5 Hathway Cable & Datacom Ltd.
4th floor, Rahejas, Main Avenue
Santacruz (W) Mumbai 400 054
6 Sistema Shyam Teleservices Ltd.
MTS Tower 3, Amrapalli Circle,
Vaishali Nagar, Jaipur 302 021.
7 Vodafone India Ltd.
Peninsula Corporate Park, Ganpatrao kadam Marg,
Lower Parel, Mumbai 400 013
8 Idea Cellular Ltd.
Suman Tower, Plot No. 18, Sector II
Gandhinagar, Gujarat 382 011
9 Reliance Communications Infrastructure Ltd.
Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City
Navi Mumbai 400 709
10 Tata Teleservices Ltd.
Jeevan Bharati Tower I, 10th Floor 124,
Connaught Circus, New Delhi 110 001.
11 Tata Communcations Ltd.
VBS Mahatma Gandhi Road
Fort Mumbai 400 001
12 O Zone Networks P Ltd.
Ground floor C 45 Green park
New Delhi 110 016
13 Tikona Digital Networks P Ltd.
3A, 3rd floor Corpora LBS Marg
Bhandup (West) Mumbai 400 078
14 BG Broadband India P Ltd.
Plot No.54 Marol Industrial Cooperative Area
Off Andheri Kurla Road Andheri East
Mumbai 400 059
15 Sify Technologies Ltd.
2nd floor Tidel Park No.4 Canal bank Road
Chennai 600 113
16 Beam Cable System P Ltd.
B-2-610/A Road No.10 Banjara Hills
Hyderabad 500 034
17 You Broadband and Cable India Ltd.
2nd and 3rd floor IQARA Centre
Near Gujarat Gas circle, Adajan Hazaria Road
Surat 395 009
18 Asianet Satellite Communications,
2A II floor Leelainfopark, Technopark Ltd.
Kazhakkoottam, Thiruvananthapuram
Kerala 695581
19 Date Infosys Ltd.
Station Road, Durgapura Jaipur 302018
20 Readylink Internet Services Ltd.
Galaxy Plot No.7 Sakthi Colony
RK Puram Ganapathy Coimbatore 641 006
21 ISP Solutions India P Ltd.
No.9, 3rd floor Prabhakar Apartments
Dr. Munusamy Garden St., Avinashi Road
Coimbatore 641 018
22 Southern Online Bio Technologies Ltd.
Flat No.A3 3rd floor
Office block Samrat complex Saifabad
Hyderabad 500 004
23 Nettlinx Ltd.
5-9-22 3rd floor
My Home Sarovar Plaza
Secretariat Road, Saifabad , Hyderabad 500 004
24 City Online Services Ltd.
701, 7th floor, Aditya Trade Centre
Ameerpet, Hyderabad 500 038
25 Pioneer eLabs Ltd.
Pioneer Towers, 7th floor Plot No.16
Survey No.64 Software Unit Layout
APIIK I-Tech City
Madhapur Hyderabad 500 080
26 Amber Online Services ltd.
303 Crescent Towers Masab Tank
Hyderabad 500 028
27 Vainavi Industries Ltd.
No.147 Panchavati colony
Road No.10 Banjara Hills
Hyderabad 500 034
28 Virgo Global Media Ltd.
9-1-93 & 84 Amarchand Sharma Complex
S.D.Road Secundarabad 500 003
29 Southern Online BioTechnologies ltd.
flat No.A3 3rd floor,
Office block Samrat complex Saifabad
Hyderabad 500 004
30 Mynet Services India P Ltd.
#12 I floor IV cross Gandhipuram
Pallipalayam Erode 638 006
31 Netcom Online Solutions India P Ltd.
Viswa paradise 23 23/4 Kalidas Road
Ram Nagar Coimbatore 641 009
32 Limras Eronet Broadband Services P Ltd.
164 Peters Road Royapettah, Chennai 600 014
33 RS Broadband Service India P Ltd.
AL 134 2nd street II Main Road
Anna Nagar Chennai 600 040
34 ABT Limited
180 Race Course Road, Coimbatore 641 018
35 VIVA Communications P Ltd.
11A East Abiramapuram
Ist Street Mylapore, Chennai 600 004
36 Pulse Telesystems P Ltd.
51/52 Real Towers 3rd floor
Royapettah High road
Mylapore Chennai 600 004
37 Vishwashakti Technologies P Ltd.
5th floor No.8-2-630 to 636 RMK Plaza
Road No.1 and 12 Banjara Hills
Hyderabad 500 034
38 Advanced Financial Services P Ltd.
46 Avenue 4 Street No.1
Banjara Hills Hyderabad 500 034
39 Atria Convergence Technologies P Ltd.
Sanaulla Layout, Manorayana Palya Hebbal Bengaluru
Karnataka 560 032
40 Ashok Kumar
41 Ashok Kumar
42 Ashok Kumar
43 Ashok Kumar
44 Ashok Kumar
45 Ashok Kumar .... Defendants
Civil Suit filed under Order VII Rule 1 of CPC and Order IV Rule 1 of the Original Side Rules read with Sections 51, 55 and 62 of the Copyright Act, 1957, to pass the following judgment and decree:-
a) permanent injunction restraining the defendants and other unknown persons by themselves, their partners/proprietor, heirs, representatives, successors in business, assigns, distributors, agents or any one claiming through them from in any manner infringing the plaintiff's copyright in the cinematograph film / motion picture "Sawaari" by copying, recording, reproducing or allowing camcording or communicating or allowing others to communicate or making available or distributing or duplicating or displaying or releasing or showing or uploading or downloading or exhibiting or playing and / or in any manner communicating the plaintiff's movie "Sawaari" in any manner without a proper license from the plaintiff or in any other manner which would violate / infringe the plaintiff's copyright in the said cinematograph film "Sawaari" through different mediums including CD, DVD, Blu-ray disc, VCD, cable TV, direct to home services, internet services, multimedia, messaging services, pen drives, hard drives, tapes, Conditional Access Systems or in any other like manner whatsover;
b) mandatory injunction directing the defendants to block all unauthorised websites / web pages/ including the schedule mentioned websites / web pages by way of data source network (DSN) blocking and / or data packet interruption (DPI) based universal resource locator (URL) blocking and / or internet protocol (IP) address blocking through routers thereby blocking all or any of the contents that relate to plaintiff's copyright protected cinematograph film / motion picture "Sawaari" unauthorisedly copied, communicated or made available or displayed or released or showed or uploaded or downloaded or exhibited or played and/or in any manner communicated in and/ or through their respective websites / webpages of the defendants;
K.K.SASIDHARAN, J.
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For Plaintiff : Mr.Karthikeibalan
For Defendants : Mr.J.Ravikumar for D4
Mr.R.Palaniandavan for D5
Mr.R.Parthasarathy for D7
J U D G M E N T
Learned counsel for the plaintiff has made an endorsement indicating that he is withdrawing the Civil Suit.
2. In view of the endorsement so made, the Civil Suit is dismissed as withdrawn. No costs. Consequently, connected applications are closed.
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