A permanent injunction restraining the Tatas, their agents and servants from printing and or publishing and or circulating the Tata Pages being violative of the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 the Act and the Indian Telegraph Rules, 1951 the rules was also sought from the Court.
The City Civil Court, Bombay by its judgment dated August 7, 1993 dismissed the suit.
Letters Patent Appeal filed by the Tatas was dismissed by a Division Bench of the Bombay High Court by the impugned judgment dated September 8, 1994.
This appeal, by way of special leave, is against the judgment of the Division Bench of the High Court upholding the learned single judge.
First appeal filed by the Nigam and the Union of India was heard by a learned single judge of the Bombay High Court and the learned judge by the judgment dated April 27, 1994 allowed the appeal, set aside the judgment of the trial companyrt and decreed the suit.
The Nigam is a Government companypany substantially companytrolled by the Government of India.
Kuldip Singh,J. This appeal has arisen from a civil suit instituted before the Bombay by the Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited the Nigam and the Union of India for a declaration that they alone have the right to print publish the list of telephone subscribers and that the same cannot be printed or published by any other person without express permission of the Nigam Union of India.
