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Mr.K.E.Ghanavelraja vs Government Of India Rep By

Madras High Court|06 February, 2017

JUDGMENT / ORDER

W.P.No.2575 of 2017 & W.M.P.No.2534 of 2017 Mr.K.E.Ghanavelraja Son of K.Eswaran .. Petitioner
-vs-
1 Government of India Rep by its Principal Secretary Department of Telecommunication Electronic Niketan 6 CGO Complex Lodhi Road New Delhi-110 003 2 Government of India Rep by its Principal Secretary Dept. of Electronics & Information Technology Electronic Niketan 6 CGO Complex Lodhi Road New Delhi-110 003 3 Telecom Regulatory Authority of India(TRAI) Rep. by its Chairman Mahanagar Doorsanchar Bhawan Next to Zakir Hussain College Jawaharlal Nehru Marg (Old Minto Rd) New Delhi-2 4 Government of India Represented by its Principal Secretary Ministry of Commerce and Industry Udyog Bhawan New Delhi - 110 107 5 Government of Tamil Nadu Represented by its Principal Secretary Information Technology Department Fort St. George Chennai  600 009 6 Government of Tamil Nadu Represented by its Principal Secretary Home Department Fort St. George Chennai  600 009 7 Director General of Police Government of Tamilnadu Chennai -600004 8 Internet Service Providers Association of India (ISPAI) 612A Chiranjiv Tower 43 Nehru Place New Delhi-
19.
9 Bharti Airtel Ltd Chief Regulatory affairs Corp.Off: Airtel Centre Tower-A 6th floor AWing Plot No. 16 Udyog Vihar Ph-IV Gurgaon-122016.
10 Reliance Communications Infrastructure Ltd President Reliance Centre A-Wing Maharaja Ranjeet Singh Marg New Delhi-110002 11 Tata Communications Internet Services Ltd Tower C 1st floor Plot No.C- 21 & C-36 G Block Bandra-Kurla Complex bandra(E) Mumbai-400098 12 Tata Communications Limited Regulatory Head VSB Bangla Sahib Road New Delhi- 110001 13 Tata Internet Services Ltd Company Secy.& Legal Mgr Technopolis Knowledge Park Mahakali Caves road Chakala Andheri(E) Mumbai-400093 14 Tata Teleservices(Maharashtra) Ltd (Hughes Tele.com (I) Ltd (Hughes Broadband Internet Service) Hemant Maple No. 2-A Old Ishwar Nagar Main Mathura Road New Delhi-110065 15 Tatanet Services Ltd Director MIDC Electronic Zone Mahape Navi Mumbai 400071 16 Vodafone Essar Gujarat Ltd 601 Saakar-II Ellisbridge Ahmedabad- 380006 (Guj.) 17 Dishnet Wireless Ltd National Head Regulatory Regd.Off: Aircell Limited Spencer Plaza 5th floor 769 Anna Salai Chennai-600002 18 ABT Ltd 180 Race Course Road Coimbatore-641018 (Tamilnadu) 19 Advanced Financial Services Pvt. Ltd 46 Avenue 4 Street No. 1 Banjara Hills Hyderabad (A.P.)- 500034 20 Adya Tech One Services Pvt.
Ltd Nehru Place Opp. Jagat Cinema Begum Bridge Meerut (U.P.).
21 Aeroway Network Pvt.Ltd #506 Landmark Complex 3rd floor Viswamanava Double Road Kuvempunagar Mysore-23 Karnataka.
22 Alliance Broadband Services Pvt. R-89 CIT Road 2nd Floor Kolkata  700 014 23 Ankhnet Information Pvt.Ltd II floor Khosla Nivas 57 Subhash Road Vile Parle (East) Mumbai  400 057 24 Blazenet Ltd 20 Paraskunj Society Part I Satellite Road Ahmedabad-15 25 Broadlane Networks Pvt. Ltd Director B1 Saroj Arcade Patkar Road Near Madhuban Cinema Dombivali (E) Thane (Maharashtra) -421 201 26 BT Global Communications India Pvt. Ltd. Director 11th floor Eros Corporate Tower Opp. Inter -National Trade Tower Nehru Place New Delhi.
27 Capture Network Systems Pvt Ltd. B/217/Rolex Shopping Centre Station Road Goregaon(W) Mumbai  62. Tele No: 022-28754693.
28 Centre for Development of Advanced Computing C-DAC (Electronics (ER&DC) Head (Information Services) Anusandhan Bhawan C-56/1 Institutional Area Sector62 Noida-201307 UP 29 Chandra net Pvt.Ltd.
401 ParshwaTower Near Pakvan II S.G. Highway Bodoakdev Ahmedabad 380054 Gujarat 30 Chemical and Metallurgical Co.Ltd. Regd. Off: 25 Community Centre East of Kailash New Delhi-110065.
31 City Online Services Ltd.
701 7th Floor Aditya Trade Center Ameerpet Hyderabad-500 038.
32 CJ Online Pvt. Ltd.
Director C-109 Indl. Area Bulandshahr Road PB No. 95 Ghaziabad-201001(U.P.) 33 CJM Consultancy Services Pvt.
Director 585 Jay Pee Complex Bank Street Munirka New Delhi-110067 Tele No: 42398398-
103. 34 Compucom (I) Pvt. Ltd.
5A Tilak Marg C-Scheme Jaipur-302005 35 Conjoinex Technologies Pvt. Lt SCO-91-92-93 Sector-34-A Chandigarh - 1600034.
36 Data Infosys Ltd.
Director Station Road Durgapura Jaipur302018.
37 DelDSL Internet Pvt. Ltd.
101 Tower D Global Business Park Mehrauli- Gurgaon Road Gurgaon- 122002.
38 DEN Networks Ltd.
236 Okhla Industrial Estate Phase-III New Delhi-110 020.
39 Digital2Virtual ISP Pvt. Ltd.
5th floor Amin Chambers 85/B Sampatrao Colony Alkapuri Vadodara  390 007.
40 Dream Plus Multi Services Pvt.
Ltd. C/o Paris Pair Health Club Jamai Road Patna - 800001(Bihar).
41 Dreamzcraft Info Solutions Pvt Ltd. 10/91 Mohit Nagar G.M.S. Road P.O. New Forest Dehradun- 248006 (Uttarakhand) 42 Equant Network Services India Pvt. Ltd. Regulatory Counsel 7th floor Tower C Infinity Tower Cyber City Sector- 25 Gurgaon 122002.
43 Ernet India Electronics Niketan 6 CGO Complex Lodi Road New Delhi-110003.
44 Eronet Broadband Service India Pvt. Ltd. 30/31 Uzhavan Street Uzhavan Nagar Surampatti. P.O. ERODE . 638009.
45 Essel Shyam Communications Ltd C-138 Naraina Industrial Area Naraina New Delhi-110028.
46 F/X Wireless Technology Service Pvt. Ltd. C/o Paris Pair Health Club Jamai Road Patna - 800001(Bihar).
47 Fast Lynx Internet Service Pvt Ltd. Opposite SBI Gurdev Nagar Branch Near Sehenshah Palace Ferozpur Road Ludhiana (Punjab).
48 Five Network Solution(India) Ltd. Managing Director 22/2 Plot No.275-B Near Guru Nanak School Sion(West) Mumbai - 400022.
49 Geocity Network solutions Pvt.
Ltd. Director Corp.Off: Somdutt Chambers- II 9 Bikaji Cama Place New Delhi  110 066.
50 Godrej Infotech Ltd General Manager Plant 10 Pirojshanagar Vikhroli Mumbai-79.
51 Gomti Cable Network Pvt. Ltd.
6 La Place Bunglows Hazratganj Lucknow  226001.
52 GTL Limited Sr. Manager - Network Media Opr Global Vision ES II 412 Janambhoomi Chambers 29.
53 Guj Info Petro Ltd.(GIPL) C.E.O. 3rd floor Info Tower-I Info City Near Indroda Circle Airport Road Gandhinagar- 382009.
54 Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers Co. Ltd.(GNFC) Sh. J.C.Bhatt P. O. Narmadanagar-392015 Dist. Bharuch Gujarat .
55 Gujarat Telelink Pvt. Ltd.
202 Sahajanad Complex Opp. BAPS Swaminarayan Temple Shahibaug Ahmedabad- 380004.
56 Harisree Cable Net Pvt. Ltd Gayatri Devi Rayman Complex thalassery Thiruvangad Post Kerala 57 Hathway Bhawani Managing Director 5th Floor Sanjona Complex Hemu Kalani Marg Plot 11A Sindhi Society Chembur Mumbai-71.
58 HCL Comnet Systems & Services Ltd National Manager-Def.Projs. & Reg A 10/11 Sector 3 Noida-201 301 Gautam Budh Nagar U.P 59 HCL Infinet Ltd GM (Regiulations). E-4 Sector-11 Noida-201 301 UP 60 Home Systems Pvt Ltd.
Gaurav Annex A-17 R.R.T. Road Mulund West Mumbai-80.
61 Honesty Net Solutions Pvt. Ltd 905 Silicon Tower 14/15 4th Floor Karia Estate Station Road Bhandup (West) Mumbai-
78. 62 Hughes Communications India Ltd Area in charge Regulatory Hughs Communications India Ltd Plot No.1 Sector 18 Electroni City Gurgaon-122 015 63 ICAN Solutions Pvt. Ltd Deepandkar Kumar 40 1st Floor Sai Chambers Sec-11 CBD Belapur Navi Mumbai(MH) 64 IKF Technologies Ltd Manoj Rungta Rashmi Building Main Block 2nd Floor Plot XI-16 Block EP & GP Salt Lake Electronic Complex Sector V Kolkata- 700 091 65 Indusind Media &Communications Ltd Pooran Mittal In Centre. 49/50 MIDC 12th Floor Andheri (E) Mumbai-93.
66 Infotel Boradband Services Ltd D-7 Dhawandeep Building 6 Jantar Mantar Road New Delhi-1 67 Ishan Netsol Pvt. Ltd 313 Shivam Complex Dr.Yagnik Road Rajkot- 360001(Guj) 68 Karuturi Global Ltd 95/1 Naranahalli Village Doddabelvangala Hobli Doddaballalpur Taluk Bangalore-561
203. 69 Kerala State Electronics Development Corp. Ltd (Keltron) Keltron House Vellayambalam thiruvanathapuram-695 033 Kerala 70 Khetan Cable Network Pvt. Ltd 95-FH Sch.No.54 Vijay Nagar Indore-452 010 (M.P) 71 Konark Infocom Pvt. Ltd Ghaziabad SSA SD-243 Pitampura New Delhi- 110 088 72 Limras Eronet Braodband Services Pvt. Ltd 164 Peters Road Royapettah Chennai-14 73 Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd Sr.Vice President (RA) 7th Floor Mahanagar Doorsanchar Bhavan Old Minto Road New Delhi-2 74 Manipal Ecommerce Ltd (Manipal Control Data Electronic Commerce Ltd) N-701 Manipal Centre 47 Dickenson Road Bangaore Karnataka-560 042.
75 Maple Online Pvt. Ltd G-35 Akash Ganga Complex Main Road PO Mango Jamshedpur-831 012 (Jharkhand) 76 Meghbela Cable & Broadband Services Pvt. Ltd. 35B/1B Raja Naba Krishna Street Kolkata (W.B)-700 005 77 Micky Online Pvt. Ltd Head Off: 211-B 2nd Floor Parsvnath Plaza- I Delhi Road Moradabad-244 001.
78 Multinet (Udaipur) Pvt. Ltd 311 Midtown Business Centre Station Road Uaiyapole Udaipur-313 001 Rajasthan 79 National Stock Exchange of India Ltd Exchange Plaza Bandra Kurla Complex Bandra (E) Mumbai-51.
80 Nelco Ltd Div.Mgr-Opr Plot No.EL-6 Electronics Zone MiDC TTC Industrial Area Mahape Navi Mumbai-400 710 (Mah) 81 Netmagic Solutions (P) Ltd Mehra Industrial Estate Asha Usha Compound LSB Marg Vikhroli (West) Mumbai-79.
82 Nettlinx Ltd Chandra Sekhar Pogula 54-9-22 3rd Floor My Home Sarovar Plaza Secretariat Road Saifabad Hyderabad-4 (AP) 83 Noida Software Technology Park Ltd Head-ISP-D B-22-25 Pkt-C Surajpur Ind. Area Greater Noida Gautam Budh Nagar U.P.-201 306.
84 North East Sreeram Dhayalen 117/1 2nd Main Road Pai Layout Doorvani Nagar Post Bangalore- 560016.
85 Oasis Cable Pvt. Ltd.
Civil Lines Batra Complex IInd Floor Roorkee District-Haridwar (Uttarakhand) 86 Ortel Communication Ltd.
Corp.Off: C-1 Chandrashekharpur Behind R.M. R.C. Near BDA Colony Bhubneshwar- - 751016 Orissa.
87 Pacific Internet (I) Pvt. Ltd.
Sr. Manager-Accounts Regd: 105 Sumer Kendra Pandurang Budhkar Marg Worli Munbai  400018.
88 Pan India Network Infravest Pvt.Ltd. Associate VP  Technical Operations 135 Continental Building Dr. Annie Besant Road Worli Mumbai  400 018.
89 Pioneer eLabs Ltd. Pioneer Towers 7th Floor P.No.16 S. No.64 Beside Vennenberg IT Park Software Unit Layout APIIC Hi- Tech City Madhapur Hyderabad-80 90 Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. Babu Varghese GM(Telecom) Corp.Off: Saudamini Plot No.2 Sector-29 Gurgaon-122001.
91 Primenet Global Ltd.
Center Manager Business Park 25/2 Shivaji Marg Nazafgarh Road New Delhi-110015 92 Pulse Telesystems Pvt. Ltd.
51/52 Real Towers 3rd Floor Royapettah High Road Mylapore Chennai  600004.
93 Quadrant Televentures Ltd.
(HFCL Infotel Ltd. ) Manager Regulatory Affairs B-71 Industrial Focal Point Phase- VII MOHALI  160055.
94 Quest Consultancy Pvt. Ltd.
Director 302 Rajput Complex Opp Ava Bai Ground Halar Road Valsad 396001 95 Rajesh Multichannel Pvt. Ltd.
41/2 Parvati Sadan Tilak Road Ghatkopar (E) Mumbai  400077 96 Rajesh Patel Net Services Pvt.
Ltd. 10/5 M.G. Road Indore- 452 001 (M.P.) 97 Readylink internet Services Link Galaxy Plot no 7 Sakhthi Colony RK Puram Ganpathy Coimbatore  641006 (T.N.).
98 S&A Internet Services Pvt. Ltd Rishabh Aditya C-21&C-36 GBlock Bandra Kurla Complex Mumbai  400098.
99 S.S. Netcom Pvt.Ltd.
System Administrator S S Chambers Near St. Peters School Dhankheti Shillong Meghalaya 793003 100 Sab Industires Ltd. (Sab Infotech) SCO 30-31 Sector 8-C Madhya Marg First Floor Chandigarh 101 Sanchar Telenetwork (P) Ltd.
116 Madhavdarshan Waghawadi Road Bhavnagar-364001 (Guj.) 102 Sanyog Networks Pvt. Ltd.
Collegetilla P/O. Agartata College Agartala  799 004. Tripura.
103 Sify Technologies Ltd.
Pr. Regulatory Officer (Corporate Affairs) 258 Okhla Industrial Area Okhla Ph-III New Delhi-110020.
104 Silicon Mountains(India) Ltd.
CHS Plot No.39 S.No.89/90 R.P.Nagar Paud Road Kothurd Pune  411048.
105 Software Technology Park of India (STPI) Director Electronics Niketan 6 CGO Complex Lodhi Road New Delhi 110003 106 Southern Online Bio Technologies Ltd. Flat no. A3 3rd floor office block Samrat Complex Saifabad Hyderabad- 500004 107 Spacenet Internet Services Pvt. Ltd. 509 Jaina Tower-1st Distt. Centre Janakpuri New Delhi-110 058.
108 Spectra ISP Networks Pvt. Ltd.
President 42 Okhla Industrial Estate Phase III New Delhi-110020 109 Spectrum Softech Solutions Pvt ltd Chief Technology Officer Mahakavi G Road Karikkamuri Kochi - 682011 Kerala.
110 Speed Online Net Pvt Ltd Director 2/5 Galaxy Commercial Centre Jawahar Road Rajkot- 360 001 111 Star Broad band Services (I) Pvt LTd 19/48 Malcha Marg Commercial Complex Chanakyapuri New Delhi-110021.
112 STN Communication & Advertising Pvt Ltd Network Engineer GDSDS Complex- 3 Dr. B. Baruah Road Ulubari Guwahati-781007 (Assam).
113 Swastik Netvision Telecom Pvt Ltd Safaria Complex Gujarat Society Paldi Ahmedabad-380007 114 Swiftmail Communications Ltd 4E Century Plaza 560-562 Mount Road Teynampet Chennai-600018 115 Symbois Creations Pvt Ltd 001 IT Complex Behind Town Hall Dimapur Nagaland.
116 Syscon Infoway Pvt Ltd 136 Shiv Shakti Industrial Primises Andheri Kurla Road Marol Andheri(East) Mumbai-400059.
117 Tikona Digital Networks Pvt Ltd Nodal Officer & Head (Compliances) 3A 3rd floor Corpora L.B.S.Marg Bhandup(West) Mumbai-400078 118 Touch Net India Pvt Ltd 84 First floor Sector-17 HUDA Market Gurgaon-122001. Tele No: 0124-4019695.
119 Trans Virtual Pvt Ltd Ist floor Golden Woods Sunderpur R.G.B. Road Guwahati  781005.
120 Trikon Electronics Pvt Ltd Director 101 1st Floor Sarvesh Apartment Bhawani Shankar Road Dadar West Mmbai-400
028. 121 Tulip IT Services Ltd C-160 Okhla Industrial Area Ph-I New Delhi-20.
122 United Telecom Ltd House No.896 Vijay Nagar Alto-torda Porvorim Bardez Goa  403521.
123 Urban Communications Infrastructure Pvt Ltd Office No. D-404 NMSEZ Comm Complex Plot No. 6 Sector No. 11D Navi Mumbai Raigarh 400702 124 Value Healthcare Ltd 101-A Neelam Centre Hind Cycle Road Worli Mumbai-400 030 125 Vasai Cable Pvt Ltd Director 154 Golder Park Commercial Complex Sai Nagar Vasai Road(W) 126 Vcar Call Centres India Pvt Ltd E-25 Sector-63 NOIDA-201301. Regd. Off: 505 Chiranjiv Tower Nehru Place New Delhi-110019.
127 Wan and Lan Internet Pvt Ltd C-13 First Floor Satyam Shopping Centre M.G.Road Ghatkkopar(E) Mumbai- 400077.
128 West Bengal Electronics Industry Development Corp Ltd Webel Bhavan Block EP & GP Sector V Salt Lake Electronics Complex Bidhannagar Kolkata- 700091 129 Wire and Wireless India Ltd Corp. Off: Essel House B-10 Lawrence Road Industrial Area New Delhi-110035.
130 Wish Net Pvt Ltd 86 Golaghata Road Kolkata- 700 048.
131 World Phone Internet Services P Ltd C-153 Okhla Industrial Area Phase  I New Delhi-110020 132 Yashash Cable Network Pvt Ltd 2713/4 Lakshmi Building Adepampa Road V.V. Mohalla Mysore-570002(ktk.) 133 You Broadband & Cable India Ltd 2 & 3rd floor Iqara Centre Nr. Gujarat gas circle. Adajan-Hazaria Road Surat-395009.
134 Zylog Systems (India) Limited 155 Thivalluvar Salai Kumaran Nagar Sholinganallur Chennai  600119.
135 Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd Regulation Cell 5th floor Harish Chandra Mathur Lane Janpath New Delhi-110001 136 Reliance Wimax Limited Vice President Reliance Centre A-Wing Maharaja Ranjeet Singh Marg New Delhi-110002 ..Respondents Prayer: Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, praying for issuance of a Writ of Mamdamus directing the respondents 1 to 7 to take strict and stringent action in accordance with law to ensure that respondents 8 to 136 adhere to the terms and conditions of their licenses and consequently ensure that they block web-sites mentioned in the Schedule to the writ petition and other similar websites indulging in online piracy and infringement of copyright pertaining to the film SI-III indulging in piracy and infringement of new films and more particularly prohibit them in territorial jurisdiction of India from exhibiting releasing projecting screening or in any manner providing platforms for downloading the film SI-III which is already censored and slated for release on 9th February 2017.
For Petitioner : Mr.B.Gurumurthy For Respondents : Mr.C.V.Ramachandramurthy, for R1 to R4 Mr.M.Elumalai, Government Advocate for R5 to R7 ORDER The writ petition has been filed seeking issuance of writ of Mandamus directing the respondents 1 to 7 to take strict and stringent action in accordance with law to ensure that respondents 8 to 136 adhere to the terms and conditions of their licenses and consequently ensure that they block web-sites mentioned in the Schedule to the writ petition and other similar websites indulging in online piracy and infringement of copyright pertaining to the film SI-III indulging in piracy and infringement of new films and more particularly prohibit them in territorial jurisdiction of India from exhibiting releasing projecting screening or in any manner providing platforms for downloading the film SI-III which is already censored and slated for release on 9th February 2017.
2.When the matter was taken up today, the Court posed a question to the learned counsel appeareing for the petitioner as to how the interim relief sought for to grant injunction against the private respondents Nos.8 to 136 is maintainable?.
3.Learned counsel for the petitioner sought permission of this Court to withdraw the writ petition with liberty to agitate the matter in the manner known to law and he has also made an endorsement to that effect.
4.In view of the submission and endorsement made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, this writ petition is dismissed as withdrawn with liberty to the petitioner to workout his right in the manner known to law. Consequently, connected misellaneous petition is dismissed.
Office Note: Issue Order Copy on 06.02.2017 To 1 Government of India Rep by its Principal Secretary Department of Telecommunication Electronic Niketan 6 CGO Complex Lodhi Road New Delhi-110 003 2 Government of India Rep by its Principal Secretary Dept. of Electronics & Information Technology Electronic Niketan 6 CGO Complex Lodhi Road New Delhi-110 003 3 Telecom Regulatory Authority of India(TRAI) Rep. by its Chairman Mahanagar Doorsanchar Bhawan Next to Zakir Hussain College Jawaharlal Nehru Marg (Old Minto Rd) New Delhi-2 4 Government of India Represented by its Principal Secretary Ministry of Commerce and Industry Udyog Bhawan New Delhi - 110 107 5 Government of Tamil Nadu Represented by its Principal Secretary Information Technology Department Fort St. George Chennai  600 009 6 Government of Tamil Nadu Represented by its Principal Secretary Home Department Fort St. George Chennai  600 009 7 Director General of Police Government of Tamilnadu Chennai -600004 T.RAJA, J.
kal W.P.No.2575 of 2017 & W.M.P.No.2534 of 2017 06.02.2017
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Title

Mr.K.E.Ghanavelraja vs Government Of India Rep By

Court

Madras High Court

JudgmentDate
06 February, 2017