Copyright infringement suit over the cinematographic film 'The Kerala Story 2 Goes Beyond' against ISPs and cable operators was withdrawn by the plaintiff with an endorsement; the court dismissed the suit as withdrawn, no costs, and closed connected applications.
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C.S(COMM DIV) No. 69 of 2026
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS
DATED: 15-06-2026
CORAM
THE HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE K.KUMARESH BABU
C.S(COMM DIV) No. 69 of 2026 and O.A.Nos.185 & 186 of 2026
Sunshine Pictures Limited, 102, Bharat Ark, Off Veera Desai Road, Mhada Colony, Azad Nagar, Andheri West, Mumbai, Maharashtra – 400 053, Branch Office at: Ground Floor Rajalakshmi, 5 & 7, Cathedral road, near Cathedral, Parthasarathypuram, Teynamepet, Chennai, Tamil Nadu – 600 004 Represented by its Authorised Signatory Ravichand Nallappa
..Plaintiff
Vs
5. Tata Communication Limited
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Tower 4, 4th to 8th Floor, Equinox Business Park, LBS Marg, Kurla West Mumbai-400070
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14.You Broadband and Cable India Ltd, 2nd and 3rd Floor, IQARA Centre, Near Gujarat Gas Circle, Adajan-Hazaria Road, Surat-395009
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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 “ The Kerala Story 2 Goes Beyond” and said Work be directed to block all websites/web pages and future websites (including their prefix and suffix) and those NonCompliant websites mentioned in Schedule -A hosting contents that relate to plaintiff’s copyright protected cinematographic film “The Kerala Story 2 Goes Beyond” 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 “ The Kerala Story 2 Goes Beyond” 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 “The Kerala Story 2 Goes Beyond” by copying, recording, reproducing or allowing camcording or
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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 “The Kerala Story 2 Goes Beyond” 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 “The Kerala Story 2 Goes Beyond” 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.
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3 provisions across 3 enactments
Sunshine Pictures Limited
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd
Bharti Airtel Limited
Hathway Cable and Datacom Limited
Tata Communication Limited
K.Kumaresh Babu
As recorded by the court registry
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