Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited v. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited and 32 Others

Page1 of 8 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS DATED: 25-03-2026 CORAM THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE SENTHILKUMAR RAMAMOORTHY and O.A.Nos.56 & 57 of 2026 Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited 18th Floor A Wing Marathon Futurex N.M. Joshi Marg Lower Parel Mumbai 400013 And also branch office at No. 33B Olympia Platina 2nd FloorSIDCO Industrial Estate Chennai 600032 Rep by its Power Agent Mr.Akshay Mahadik ..Petitioner(s) Vs

¶1Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited Bharat Sanchar Bhavan, Harish Chandra Mathur lane, Janpath, New Delhi-110001

¶2Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd 5th Floor, Mahanagar Door Sanchar Sadan, 9, CGO Complex, LodhiRoad,New Delhi 110003

¶3Bharti Airtel Limited Bharti Crescent, 1, Nelson Mandela Road, VasantKunj, Phase II, New Delhi - 110070

¶4Hathway Cable and Datacom Limited 802, 8TH floor, Interface-11, Link Road, Malad West, Mumbai, Maharashtra - 400064

¶5Tata Communication Limited Tower 4, 4th to 8th Floor, Equinox Business Park, LBS Marg, Kurla West Mumbai-400070

¶6Vodafone India Limited, Page2 of 8 Suman Tower, Plot No.18, Sector-11, Gandhinagar Gujarat 382011

¶7Idea Cellular Limited Suman Tower, Plot No. 18, Sector 11, Gandhinagar, Gujarat - 382011.

¶8Tata Teleservices Ltd, 10th Floor, Tower I, JeevanBharati, 124 Connaught Circus New Delhi 110001.

¶9GTPL Hathway Ltd 202 2nd Floor SahajanandShopping Centre Opp.Swaminarayan Temple Shahibaugh Ahmedabad 380004

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

11.BG Broadband India Private Limited, Plot No. 54, Marol Industrial Cooperative Area, Off. AndheriKurla 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 WestDL 110033

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. Page3 of 8

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

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-500038.

20.Pioneer eLabs Limited, Pioneer Towers, 17th Floor, Plot No.16, Survey No.64, Software Unit Layout, APIIk, i-Tech City, Madhapur, Hyderabad-500080

21.AT and T Global Network Service India Pvt Ltd, 13th floor, 1305-06, Mohan Dev House, 13, Tolstoy Marg, New Delhi-110001.

22.Southern Online Bio Technologies Limited, Flat no. A3, 3rd floor, office block, Samrat Complex, Saifabad, Hyderabad-500004

23.Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited 9th Floor Maker Chambers IV, 222, Nariman Point, Mumbai -400021.

24.Limras Eronet Broadband Services Private Limited, Doshi Towers, First Floor 156, Poonamalle High Road, Kilpauk, Chennai-600010

25.RS Broadband Service India Private Limited, Doshi Towers, First Floor, Old 156, New 205, Poonamalle High Road, Kilpauk, Chennai 600010. Page4 of 8

26.Spectra ISP Networks Pvt Ltd Plot No. 21-22, 3rd Floor UdyogVihar, Phase IV, Gurgaon - 122015.

27.EsselShyam Communications Ltd 1121, Hemkunt Chambers, 11th Floor,89 Nehru Place New Delhi-110019

28.Five Network Solution I Ltd A/301-303 Everest Grande Mahakali Caves Road Andheri East Mumbai 400093

29.Atria Convergence Technologies Limited No. 17 / 68, Chevalier Shivaji Ganesan Street New Colony, T. Nagar Chennai-600017.

30.Action Lane No 16, No 1A Kalpana Apartments, 1st Street, Above Padmanaba Nagar Electricity Board Adyar, Chennai - 600020

31.Jak Communications Pvt Ltd No 4 J Block, Near 6th Avenue, Anna Nagar East, Chennai - 600102,

32.C32 Cable Net Pvt Ltd old No. 284, New No. 204, ShanmugamSalai, Royapettah, Chennai - 600014.

33.Thamizhaga Cable TV Communication Pvt Ltd No 9 A/5, Club Road, Near Mittai Shop, Chetpet, Chennai - 600031. ..Respondent(s) PRAYER: Plaint filed under Order VII Rule I of Civil Procedure Code, 1908 and Order IV Rule 1 of O.S.Rules, 1956 Read With Sections 51, 52, 55 and 62 of the Copyright Act, 1957 and the Copyright (Amendment) Act, 2012 and Page5 of 8 Section 7 of the Commercial Courts, Act, 2015, praying to the judgment and decree as follows: a. A permanent injunction restraining the Defendants 1 to 29 or any other person or such other websites which are discovered by the Plaintiff after the release of the movie from infringing the cinematographic film AGA AGA SUNBAI KAY MHANTAY SASUBAI 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 AGA AGA SUNBAI KAY MHANTAY SASUBAI inany 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 30 - 33 or any other person or entity from infringing the cinematographic film AGA AGA SUNBAI KAY

MHANTAY

SASUBAI

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 Plaintiffs copyrighted cinematographic film AGA Page6 of 8 AGA SUNBAI KAY MHANTAY SASUBAI 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 AGA AGA SUNBAI KAY MHANTAY SASUBAI 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 AGA AGA SUNBAI KAY MHANTAY SASUBAI through different mediums including but not limited to CD,DVD, Blu-ray disc, VCD, cable TV, Direct to home services, internetservices, multimedia messaging services, pen drives, hard drives, tapes,DAS, satellite, Conditional Access Systems or in any othe rmedium/manner whatsoever. c. For costs of the suit. For Petitioner(s): Mr.S.Deepak for M/s. P.K.Law Firm ************ Page7 of 8 JUDGMENT Learned counsel for the plaintiff submits that he has been instructed to withdraw the suit. He has made an endorsement for that purpose.

¶2Therefore, this suit is dismissed as withdrawn without any order as to costs. Consequently, the connected original applications are closed. 25-03-2026 Index: Yes/No Speaking/Non-speaking order RNA Page8 of 8

SENTHILKUMAR RAMAMOORTHY, J. RNA and O.A.Nos.56 & 57 of 2026 25-03-2026