(April 27, 1983) 1983 (TLS)124453

1983-AIR (Del)-0-461

K. P. M. SUNDHRAM Vs. Rattan Prakashan Mandir

S. S. CHADHA

( 1 ) THE plaintiff has instituted the present suit against defendants 1 to 3 for injunction, restraining them from printing, publishing and selling the specified books, rendition of accounts for the illegal gains made by the defendants for all unauthorised publications and for damages under the provisions of Ss. 55 and 57 of the Copyright Act, 1957 (for short called the Act ).

( 2 ) THE claim of the plaintiff in the suit in the nutshell is that he is a reputed author of the works known as:

(A) Principles of Economics in English and in Hindi (jointly with Prof. M. C. Vaish ). (b) Text Book of Economics Theory in English. (c) Public Economics and Public Finance in English (jointly with Prof. K. K. Andley ). (d) Theory of Income. Price and Growth in English. (e) Aye Thatha Mulya Sidhant in Hindi (jointly with Prof. M. C. Vaish and Prof. Rudra Dutt ). (f) Public Economics and Public Finance in Hindi (Jointly with Prof. K. K. Andley and Prof. R. C. Aggarwal ).

( 3 ) IT is pleaded that the plaintiff had merely granted a licence to defendants 1 to 3 as publishers