This is an application filed under O. 14, Rule-8 of Original Side Rules read with order 39, Rules-1 and 2 Civil Procedure Code, seeking a permanent injunction restraining the respondents/defendants, their agents, servants, representatives and distributors from interfering with the plaintiffs copyright in respect of the picture, ‘Meenava Nanban’ by way of telecasting or by exhibiting the same through video cassettes or by producing and marketing the video cassettes of the said picture, pending disposal of the suit and for another prayer seeking an order for seizing the video cassettes of the suit picture, ‘Meenava Nanban’ from the premises of the second defendant at No. 137, purasawalkam High Road, Madras-600;010, im mediately and that for the second relief is con cerned, it was the prayer formulated in Applica tion No. 2671 of 1991 in the suit.

2. The case of the applicant/plaintiff as gathered from the affidavit filed in support of the above two petitions and the plaint is as follows:

The applicant/plaintiff, a proprietary concern represented by its sole proprietor, late S.R. Arul Prakasam, acquired an absolute ownership of the negative rights in respect of the suit Tamil