Dharma Productions Pvt Ltd v. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited and 32 Others

Page1 of 8 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS DATED: 15-06-2026 CORAM THE HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE K.KUMARESH BABU and O.A.Nos.402 and 403 of 2026 Dharma Productions Pvt.Ltd., 201 & 202, 2nd Floor, Supreme Chambers, Off Veera Desai Road, 17/18 Shah Industrial Estate, Andheri (W), Mumbai – 400 053, India Branch Office At: No.225, Opposite Spencers Plaza, Anna Salai, Chennai, Tamil Nadu – 600 002. represented by its Authorised Singatory, Ms.Rakhee Bajpai ..Plaintiff 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 - 110 070

¶4Hathway Cable and Datacom Limited 802, 8th floor, Interface-11, Link Road, Malad West, Mumbai, Maharashtra - 400 064

¶5Tata Communication Limited Tower 4, 4th to 8th Floor, Page2 of 8 Equinox Business Park, LBS Marg, Kurla West Mumbai-400070

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

¶7Idea Cellular Limited Suman Tower, Plot No. 18, Sector 11, Gandhinagar, Gujarat - 382 011.

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

¶9GTPL Hathway Ltd 202, 2nd Floor, Sahajanand Shopping 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. 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, Page3 of 8 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, 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-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-500080

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-500004.

¶23Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited, Page4 of 8 9th Floor Maker Chambers IV, 222, Nariman Point, Mumbai – 400 021.

24.Limras Eronet Broadband Services Private Limited, Doshi Towers, First Floor 156, Poonamalle High Road, Kilpauk, Chennai-600 010

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

26.Spectra ISP Networks Pvt Ltd Plot No. 21-22, 3rd Floor UdyogVihar, Phase IV, Gurgaon - 122 015.

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

28.Five Network Solution (I) Ltd A/301-303, Everest Grande, Mahakali Caves Road, Andheri East, Mumbai - 400 093.

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

¶30Action 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 - 600 014. Page5 of 8

33.Thamizhaga Cable TV Communication Pvt Ltd No 9 A/5, Club Road, Near Mittai Shop, Chetpet, Chennai - 600031. ..Respondents This Civil Suit filed under Order VII Rule 1 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 Section 7 of the Commercial Courts, Act 2015 – suit for permanent injunction for the infringement of Copyright, praying to: 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 "Chand Mera Dil" 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 "Chand Mera Dil" 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/webpages in writing; b) A permanent injunction restraining the Defendants 30 to 33 or any other person or entity from infringing the cinematographic film "Chand Mera Dil" 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 "Chand Mera Dil" 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 Page6 of 8 uploading or downloading or exhibiting or playing and/or in any manner whatsoever from communicating the cinematographic film "Chand Mera Dil" 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 "Chand Mera Dil" 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; and d) pass such further or other orders as this Court may deem fit and proper in the circumstances of the case and thereby render justice. For Plaintiff : Mr.S.Deepak for M/s.P.K.Law Firm For Respondents : No appearance Judgment Learned counsel for the plaintiff seeks permission of this Court to withdraw the suit and he has also made an endorsement to that effect in the Court bundle.

¶2Recording the submission and the endorsement made by the learned Page7 of 8 counsel for the plaintiff, this suit is dismissed as withdrawn. No costs. Connected applications are closed. 15-06-2026 mp C.S(COMMoDIV)oNo.o129oofo2026 K.KUMARESHoBABUoJ. mp C.S(COMMoDIV)oNo.o129oofo2026 15-06-2026 Page8oofo8