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IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI

Reserved on: 12^th April, 2022

Date of decision: 30^th August, 2022

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CS (COMM) 282/2020

NEETU SINGH & ANR.

..... Plaintiffs

Through:

Ms. Rajeshwari H. & Ms. Swapnil

Gaur, Advocates. (M:9897905254)

versus

TELEGRAM FZ LLC & ORS.

..... Defendants

Through:

Mr. Amit Sibal, Sr. Adv. with Ms.

Anushka Sharda, Mr. Madhav Khosla,

Ms. Smriti Nair, Mr. Vinay Tripathi,

Mr. Madhav Chitale, Mr. Aishwary

Vikram and Mr. Saksham Dhingra,

Advs.

For

Defendant

No.1.

(M:8377065347)

CORAM:

JUSTICE PRATHIBA M. SINGH

JUDGMENT

Prathiba M. Singh, J.

I.A. 8461/2020 (u/O XI CPC seeking discovery and directions to Defendant

No. 1 to disclose identity of infringing channels)

Brief Facts

1.

The Plaintiffs – Ms. Neetu Singh and K.D. Campus Pvt. Ltd. have filed

the present suit seeking permanent injunction restraining infringement of

copyright, damages and other reliefs in respect of unauthorized dissemination

of the Plaintiffs’ videos, lecture, books, etc.

2.

The case of the Plaintiffs is that Plaintiff No.1 is a renowned author of

books which are designed to train students aspiring to take various

competitive examinations including the examinations of Staff Selection

Commission (SSC), Bank Probationary Officer (PO), CDS, NDA, etc.

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Plaintiff No.1 – Ms. Neetu Singh founded Plaintiff No.2 – M/s K.D. Campus,

which runs coaching centres for these competitive exams. The suit has been

filed by the Plaintiffs against Defendant No.1/Telegram FZ LLC (hereinafter

“Telegram”) and Defendant No.2/John Doe, i.e., unknown persons.

3.

The Telegram app is a messaging platform capable of being

downloaded on mobile phones, computers, tabs and other similar gadgets,

which enables transmission of text, audio files, video files, images, documents

etc. The allegation in the suit is that the Plaintiffs’ copyrighted works

including course material, online lectures and other works are being

disseminated unauthorizedly through various Telegram channels, some of

which, as set out in the plaint, are as under:

•Neetu maam course (t.me/vshusinha1010);

•Neetu singh mam (t.me/EnglishbyNeetusinghmam);

•English (t.me/neetu_singh_mam);

•English Spoken by Neetu Singh (t.me/NeetuEnglish4Me);

•English By Neetu singh PDF (t.me/camastrammeena);

•Careerwill Paid classes (t.me/careerwill_ssc);

•Neetu mam English discussion (t.me/neetumamenglish);

•Neetu mam (t.me/Neetu2865);

•Kd campus live (t.me/kdcampusofficial22);

•Kd Campus Live (t.me/kdcampuslive);

•Kd live neetu mam (t.me/cjnvdb);

•Neetu mam English (free) (t.me/paidcourseforfree009);

•English by Neetu singh (t.me/kdcampus02);

•(t.me/neetuenglish);

•ENGLISH

•SSC Courses Neetu (t.me/ssccoursepaid1);

•Free all course (t.me/freeallcourse);

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•Free all course (t.me/careerwillfreeallcourseofficial);

•FREE PAID COURSES FOR ALL EXAMS (t.me/Paid_Coursefree);

•PAID VIDEO FREE COURSE (t.me/paidvideofreecourse);

•Ssc bank mains paid material (t.me/bankingpd);

•Neetu English (t.me/Neetuenglishfree);

•NEETU SINGH ENGLISH (t.me/digitalboardhai);

•NEETU SINGH ENGLISH (t.me/getpaidcourse5);

•All competition class (t.me/PRATEEKNAIK);

•SSC Courses Neetu Singh, gopal verma, abhinay sir plus, e1 coaching,

•English mains by gopal verma& Christopher (t.me/egvianss);

•Govtclasses:tm:Govt:exclamation:Classes:black_circle:

•Exam Material For You (t.me/exammaterialforyou);

•Carrer will app paid videos (t.me/carrerwillvideosfree), etc.

4.

The Plaintiffs aver that on these channels, videos of the lectures

delivered by Plaintiff No.1 are being uploaded on a daily basis and being made

accessible to students at discounted rates. The screenshots of the said videos

are extracted in the plaint. The Plaintiffs also found that the books of the

Plaintiffs including books titled ‘Plinth to Paramount’ etc. are being

circulated in PDF formats on Telegram ch