The plaintiff instructed withdrawal of the suit for copyright infringement regarding the film 'DHURANDHAR'. The Court dismissed the suit as withdrawn without costs, and closed the connected original applications.
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C.S(COMM DIV) No. 312 of 2025
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS
DATED: 18-02-2026
CORAM
THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE SENTHILKUMAR RAMAMOORTHY
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Reliance Industries Limited Jio Studios (the Media and Entertainment division of Reliance Industries Limited) Registered Address: 3rd Floor, Maker Chambers IV, 222 Nariman Point, Mumbai 400 021
Branch Address A1 Tower, 5th Floor, No.89, Dr. Radha Krishnan Salai, Mylapore, Chennai-4 Rep.by its Power Agent Ms.Dipti Kishan Kotak
..Plaintiff(s)
Vs
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Kerala - 695581.
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No 16, No 1A Kalpana Apartments, 1st Street, Above Padmanaba Nagar Electricity Board Adyar, Chennai - 600020
..Defendant(s)
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PRAYER: Plaint filed under Order VII Rule 1 CPC Read With Order IV Rule
1 OS Rules Read With Sections 51, 52, 55, 62 of the Copyrights Act, 1957, and the Copyright (Amendment) Act, 2012 and 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 infringing the cinematographic film DHURANDHAR and said Work be directed to block all websites/web pages and future websites including their prefx and suffix and those Non-Compliant websites mentioned in Schedule-A hosting contents that relate to Plaintiff copyright protected cinematographic film DHURANDHAR 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 - 33 or any other person or entity from infringing the cinematographic film ..DHURANDHAR 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 DHURANDHAR by recording, reproducing
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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 DHURANDHAR and said Work without a proper license from the Plaintiff or in any other manner which would violate / infringe the Plaintiffs copyrighted cinematographic fiim DHURANDHAR 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, sateliite, Conditional Access Systems or in any other medium / manner whatsoever.
(c) for costs of the suit.
For Plaintiff(s): Mr.S.Deepak
for M/s.P.K.Law Firm *********
JUDGMENT
Learned counsel for the plaintiff submits that he has been instructed to withdraw the suit. An endorsement has been made for the said purpose.
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without any order as to costs. Consequently, the connected original applications are closed.
18-02-2026
Index: Yes/No Speaking/Non-speaking order Neutral Citation: Yes/No RNA
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SENTHILKUMAR RAMAMOORTHY, J.
RNA
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1 issue framed by the court
Whether the suit for permanent injunction against copyright infringement of the cinematographic film 'DHURANDHAR' should proceed?
3 provisions across 3 enactments
Reliance Industries Limited Jio Studios
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd
Bharti Airtel Limited
Hathway Cable and Datacom Limited
Tata Communication Limited
SENTHILKUMAR RAMAMOORTHY
As recorded by the court registry
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