HON’BLE MR.JUSTICE K.KUMARESH BABU OA Nos. 805 & 806 of 2026 in C.S(COMM DIV) NO. 233 OF 2026 O.A.No.805 of 2026 Sun TV Network Limited

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS
DATED: 05-08-2026
CORAM
THE HON’BLE MR.JUSTICE K.KUMARESH BABU
OA Nos. 805 & 806 of 2026 in
C.S(COMM DIV) NO. 233 OF 2026
O.A.No.805 of 2026
Sun TV Network Limited
Murasoli Maran Towers 73,
MRC Nagar Main Road
MRC Nagar, Chennai Tamil Nadu 600 028
Represented by its Authorised Signatory
Mr M. Jyothi Basu
..Applicant(s)
Vs
1. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
Bharat Sanchar Bhavan
Harish Chnadra Mathur Lane,
Janpath, New Delhi-110001
2. Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited
5th Floor, Mahanagar Door Sanchar Sadan 9,
CGO Complex, Lodhi Road New Delhi 110003
3. Bharti Airtel Limited
Airtel Center, Plot No 16, Udyog Vihar, Phase
IV, Gurgaon, Gurugram, Haryana,
India 122 015
4. Hathway Cable and Datacom Limited
802, 8th Floor, Interface-11, Link Road Malad West, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400064
5. Tata Communication Limited
VSB, Mahatma Gandhi Road Fort Mumbai,
Maharashtra 400001
6. Vodafone India Limited
Peninsula Corporate Park Ganapatrao Kadam
Marg, Lower Parel, Mumbai City, Mumbai,
Maharashtra, India 400 013
7. Reliance Communications Infrastructure
Limited
H Block, 1st Floor Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City Koparkhairane, Navi Mumbai Maharashtra 400710.
8. Tata Teleservices Limited
10th Floor, Tower I, Jeevan Bharati, 124,
Connaught Circus, NewDelhi, India 110001
9. GTPL Hathway Limited 202, Sahajanand Shopping Center Opp.
Swaminarayan Mandir Shahibaug, Ahmedabad,
Gujarat 380 004
10.Tikona Digital Networks Private Limited
Office 3A, 3rd Floor LBS Marg, Bhandup West
Mumbai, Maharashtra 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
TIDEL PARK, 2nd Floor No. 4, Canal Bank
Road Taramani, Chennai Tamil Nadu 600 113
13.Siti Broadband Services Private Limited
B-10, Lawrence Road, Industrial Area, New
Delhi North West, New Delhi -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 Limited
2A, II Floor, Leela Infopark Technopark,
Kazhakuttam Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala 695
581
16.Data Infosys Limited
Station Road, Durgapura Jaipur 302018.
17.Readylink Internet Services Limited
Plot no 7, Sakthi Colony RK Puram, Ganapathy
Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu 641 006
18.Nettlinx Limited
5-9-22, 3rd Floor Secretariat Road, Saidabad, Hyderabad, Telangana, India 500 004
19.City Online Services Limited
701, 7th Floor, Aditya Trade Center Ameerpet, Hyderabad, Telangana – 500 034
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 Private Limited
13th floor, Mohan Dev Building 13 Tolstoy Marg, New Delhi – 110 001.
22.Nextgen Communications Limited
Gulmohar House, 161/B-4, Gautam Nagar,
Yusuf Sarai, South Delhi, New Delhi, India,
India 110 049
23.Virgo Global Limited
3-45-117, Plot No.A-23, Vikrampuri Colony Kakaguda, Hyderabad, Telangana 500009
24.Southern Online Bio Technologies Limited
Flat No A3, 3rd Floor, Office Block, Samrat
Complex, Saifabad, Hyderabad 500 004
25.Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited
101, Saffron Nr Centre Point, Panchwati 5 Rasta, Amba, Wadi, Ahmedabad, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India 380006.
26.Limras Eronet Broadband Services Private
Limited
Doshi Towers, First Floor 156, Poonamalle
High Road, Kilpauk, Chennai-600 010
27.RS Broadband Service India Private Limited
No. 18/7, First Floor, Postal Colony III Street
West Mambalam, Chennai Tamil Nadu,
600033, India
28.Spectra ISP Networks Pvt Ltd
Plot No. 21-22, 3rd Floor Udyog Vihar, Phase
IV, Gurgaon 122 015
29.Pulse Telesystems Private Limited
11/9, Pulse Province, Sterling road 3rd Cross Street, Nungambakkam Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600034.
30.Planetcast Technologies Limited
1121, Hemkunt Chambers, 11th Floor, 89
Nehru Place, South Delhi, New Delhi, Delhi,
India 110019
31.Microscan Internet Private Limited
A/301-303, Everest Grande, Mahakali Caves
Road Shanti Nagar, Opp. Ahura Centre,
Andheri East Chakala Midc, Mumbai,
Maharashtra 400093
32.Atria Convergence Technologies Limited
2nd 3rd Floor, No.1, Indian Express Building Queens Road, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560 001
33.Opto Network Private Limited
Ground Floor, House No1, Back Portion,
Ground Floor, 8 Moti Nagar, Delhi, West Delhi,
Delhi, India 110015
..Respondent(s) OA No. 806 of 2026
Sun TV Network Limited
Murasoli Maran Towers 73,
MRC Nagar Main Road
MRC Nagar, Chennai Tamil Nadu 600 028
Represented by its Authorised Signatory
Mr M. Jyothi Basu
..Applicant(s)
Vs
1.Action Lane
No.16, No.1A Kalpana Apartments, 1st Street, Above Padmanaba Nagar Electricity Board, Adyar, Chennai 600 020.
2.Jak Communications Private Limited J-4, 6th Avenue, Anna Nagar East, Chennai, Tamil Nadu – 600 102.
3.C32 Cable Net Private Limited
Old No.284, New No.204,
Avvai Shanmugam Salai, Royapettah, Chennai, Tamil Nadu – 600 014.
4.Thamizhaga Cable TV Communication Private Limited, No.9A/5, Club Road, Near Mittai Shop, Chetpet, Chennai, Tamil Nadu – 600 031.
5.Thiru Nagar Satellite Vision Pvt Ltd.,
T121, Avvai Street, Thirunagar, Chennai – 600 082, Tamil Nadu, India.
..Respondent(s)
Prayer in OA No. 805 of 2026
Judges Summons filed under Order XIV Rule 8 of O.S. Rules read
with Order XXXIX Rule 1 and 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, praying to pass an order of ad interim injunction restraining the rogue websites contained in Schedule A and future websites/URLs discovered through Defendants 1 to 33 from infringing or facilitating the infringement of the cinematographic film “DC” in Tamil language and other dubbed languages and/or any other language the cinematographic film may be dubbed and released with the same title or otherwise and Defendants 1 to 33 be directed to block all rogue websites/web pages and future websites (including their prefix and suffix) and the non-compliant websites mentioned in Schedule-A hosting contents that relate to Plaintiff’s copyright protected cinematographic film “DC” and other domains / domain owners / websites operators / entities which are discovered to have been engaged in facilitating the infringement of the Plaintiff’s exclusive rights by hosting, streaming, reproducing, distributing, making available to the public and/or communicating to the public or facilitating the same, on their websites, through the internet in any manner whatsoever hosting contents that relate to Plaintiff’s copyright protected cinematographic film “DC” in Tamil language and other dubbed languages and/or any other language the cinematographic film may be dubbed and released with the same title or otherwise, thereby restraining the unauthorized copying, transmission, communication or make available or displaying 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.
Prayer in OA No. 806 of 2026
Judges Summons filed under Order XIV Rule 8 of O.S. Rules read
with Order XXXIX Rule 1 and 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, praying to pass an order of ad-Interim injunction restraining the respondents 1-5/Defendants 34-38 from infringing/facilitating infringement of the Applicant/Plaintiff’s cinematographic film “DC” in Tamil language and other dubbed languages and/or any other language the cinematographic film may be dubbed and released with the same title or otherwise, 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 Applicant/Plaintiff’s copyrighted cinematographic film “DC” in Tamil language and other dubbed languages and/or any other language the cinematographic film may be dubbed and released with the same title or otherwise by copying, recording, reproducing or allowing cam cording 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 “DC” in Tamil language and other dubbed languages and/or any other language the cinematographic film may be dubbed and released with the same title or otherwise and the said Film without a proper license from the Plaintiff or in any other manner which would violate / infringe the Applicant/Plaintiff’s copyrighted cinematographic film “DC” in Tamil language and other dubbed languages and/or any other language the cinematographic film may be dubbed and released with the same title or otherwise, 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.
For Applicant(s): Mr.Narendran Manoharan
For M/s.King And Partridge
(in both applications)
COMMON ORDER
In a suit seeking remedies in respect of the apprehended infringement of the plaintiff’s copyright in the cinematographic film titled “DC”, the plaintiff has presented these two original applications seeking orders of interim injunction against the Internet service providers and cable TV operators, who are arrayed as respondents in the respective applications.
2. As evidence of the plaintiff’s ownership of the copyright, the plaintiff has filed the CBFC certificate describing the plaintiff as the producer. The promotional material reveals that the movie is slated for release on 07.08.2026.
3. In matters of this nature, it is likely that irreversible injury will occur, unless unlawful broadcast is prevented. At the same time, in view of the expansive nature of the relief claimed, it is possible that the legitimate business interest of one or more respondents may be affected. Therefore, it is necessary that the plaintiff shall indemnify in respect thereof.
4. Subject to this condition, orders of ad interim injunction as prayed for are granted in these two applications for a period of four weeks. Issue notice to the respondents returnable in four weeks. Private notice is also permitted through speed post with acknowledgment due. The applicant shall comply with Order XXXIX Rule 3 of CPC.
5. List the matter after four(4) weeks.
05-08-2026
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K.KUMARESH BABU J.
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OA Nos. 805 & 806 of 2026 in C.S(COMM DIV) NO. 233 OF 2026
05-08-2026