High Court of DelhiCS(COMM)/11/2023

Star India Private Limited. & ANR. v. Live4wap.Click & ORS.

2024-04-24Hon'Ble Mr. Justice Anish Dayal9 pages

$~18 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI + CS(COMM) 11/2023 , I.A. 496/2023, I.A. 5336/2023& I.A. 6962/2023.

STAR INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED. & ANR.

..... Plaintiffs Through:

Mr. Akshay Maloo and Ms. Runjhun Tiwari, Advocates.

versus LIVE4WAP.CLICK & ORS.

..... Defendants Through:

Ms. Shweta Sahu and Mr. Parva Khare, Advocates for D-14.

Mr. Arjun Mahajan, SPC for UOI with Ms. Neha Rai and Mr. Apoorv Upmanyu, Advocates for D-27 & 28.

Mr.

Ajay Gupta, Advocate for defendant no.29.

CORAM:

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ANISH DAYAL

O R D E R

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This suit was filed seeking a decree of permanent injunction restraining defendant nos. 1 to 11, which are websites/URLs from streaming/broadcasting, disseminating in any manner, the content of plaintiffs' broadcast in Star Channel and Disney+ Hotstar in relation to BCCI events, so as to not to infringe plaintiffs' broadcast reproduction rights.

None of the defendants have entered appearance except for defendant no. (Go.

Daddy.com, LLC), defendant no.27 (Department of Telecommunications), defendant no. 28 (Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology) & defendant no. 29 (National Internet Exchange of The authenticity of the order can be re-verified from Delhi High Court Order Portal by scanning the QR code shown above.

India).

An ex parte ad interim injunction was granted in favour of plaintiffs by order of this Court dated 11th January, 2023, in the following terms which has been extracted as under:

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It is stated that compliance of the same has been made and plaintiff seeks a decree.

The background facts which prefaced the injunction are recorded in paras 8-14 of the order dated 11th January, 2023, are reproduced as under for reference:

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There is no rebuttal of these facts or averments. The Court has also perused the pleadings and documents. Accordingly, the decree is passed in The authenticity of the order can be re-verified from Delhi High Court Order Portal by scanning the QR code shown above.

favour of plaintiff in terms of prayer contained in para 85 (i) of the plaint, which is extracted as under:

Decree sheet be drawn up accordingly.

The suit is disposed of accordingly. Pending applications are rendered infructuous.

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