COMMON JUDGMENT

C.S.No.350 of 2017 has been filed by the plaintiffs seeking for a direction to direct the defendant to pay a sum of Rs.50 Lakhs towards compensation for spoiling the name, image and reputation of the plaintiffs and for a permanent injunction restraining the defendant, his men, servants, legal representatives and assigns from in any way tarnishing the image of the plaintiffs by diffusion of false, malicious and mischievous information about the plaintiffs through media such as whatsapp, twitter, facebook, youtube, print media etc., and also for costs.

2. Tr.C.S.No.467 of 2019 has been filed by the plaintiff seeking for a declaration that the first defendant infringed the copyright of the plaintiff by unlawfully using the underlying original literary work of the story of the serial titled “Nandini”, and for consequential injunction restraining the first defendant, his men, servants, agents and any persons claiming under him from further infringing the copyright of the plaintiff by utilization, mutilation, modification or other act in relation to the original literary work including but no limited to the story authored by the plaintiff for use in the teleserial titled “N