JUDGMENT :

M.S.Ramachandra Rao, J.

This appeal is filed challenging the endorsement dt.19.02.2020 on the file of the Chief Judge, City Civil Court, Hyderabad in C.S.R.No.55 of 2020 in OS.SR.No.363 of 2020.

2. The plaint in the said OS.SR was presented by appellant on 06.01.2020 before the Chief Judge, City Civil Court, at Hyderabad, and in the said plaint the appellant had sought a direction to respondent to pay damages amounting to Rs.5 crores. It is the allegation of appellant in the plaint that respondents had addressed an e-mail to IDEX and other e-mail groups on 10.11.2019 defaming and causing loss to appellant, and that such defamation of appellant on various online platforms is continuing, and that is the cause of action for filing this suit.

3. The Court below had initially raised an objection for numbering the suit that the dispute, as per averments in the plaint arose in the ordinary transaction of parties in the capacity of trader/merchants, and that the case would fall within the purview of Section 2(1)(c)(i) of the Commercial Courts Act, 2015.

4. The petitioner re-submitted the case bundle contending that as per Section 2(1)(c)(i) of the Commercial Courts Act, 2015, a