S. Ravindra Bhat, J.

1. The plaintiff seeks permanent injunction restraining the defendants, their successors, assigns, etc or anybody claiming through them, from publishing confidential and/or misleading information relating to the plaintiffs negotiations and contracts, in the form of articles or news items or in any other form, in the website www.indianpetro.com and its sister or other websites, or through e-mail alerts, without the written consent of the plaintiff; It also seeks mandatory injunction directing the defendants, their successors, assigns, etc. to unconditionally remove the confidential and misleading information/news items/articles detailed in paragraph 19 of the plaint from the defendants said website www.indianpetro.com.

.2. The Plaintiff is a listed, joint venture company promoted by four Public Sector Undertakings, (viz, GAIL (India) Limited, Oil Natural Gas Corporation Limited Indian Oil Corporation Limited and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited with an authorized share capital of Rs. 1200 crores, to import Liquefied Natural Gas (hereafter referred as "LNG") and set up LNG terminals in the country, Gaz De France, a French national gas company, through