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1984 Supreme(Mad) 226

RAMANUJAM, RATNAM
Entertaining Enterprises, Madras – Appellant
Versus
State of T. N. – Respondent


Advocates:
V. P. Raman and K. K. Venugopal, respectively for Mrs. Jayanthi Natarajan, P. Chsdambaram and S. Navaneethan, for
Petitioners; Advocate General for Govt. Pleader for Respondents.

Judgement

RAMANUJAM, J. :- Since the writ appeals arise out of the interim orders passed in the interlocutory applications filed in the writ petitions, they need not be dealt with separately, as we are disposing of the writ petitions themselves. Since the facts and circumstances which gave rise to the filing of the writ petitions are substantially the same, it is not necessary to deal with the facts in each of the writ petitions and it will suffice to deal with the facts in Writ Petition No. 1587 of 1984. The first petitioner in that case is Entertaining Enterprises carrying on the business of running a video cassette library in Door No. 310, Mount Road, Madras-600 018. The object of the petitioners' business is to make available on a fixed hire, video cassettes to its members to enable the members to view these cassettes in the Privacy of their homes, through a video cassette player attached to a television unit. The first petitioner has with him pre-recorded cassettes which he hires out to the members of his library and these cassettes are returned by the hirers after viewing them in their homes. The 1st petitioner has with him several such pre-recorded cassettes and the other pet















































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