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The Madras High Court connected Wednesday (March 18, 2026) injuncted Amazon Seller Services, Flipkart Private Limited, Facebook, Instagram, and a big of different known and chartless entities from permitting unauthorised merchantability of merchandise with copyrighted works of Ranveer Singh-starrer Dhurandhar and its sequel Dhurandhar The Revenge slated to merchandise connected Thursday (March 19, 2026).
Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy granted the interim injunction till April 15, 2026, pursuant to a John Doe suit (a lawsuit against known arsenic good arsenic chartless individuals) filed jointly by Reliance Industries Limited and B62 Studios Private Limited for alleged infringement of their copyright implicit the 2 movies.
Reliance Industries had produced Dhurandhar and its sequel Dhurandhar The Revenge done its media and amusement part Jio Studios and thus, filed the suit against each those who were commercially exploiting the copyrighted works related to the 2 movies without authorisation.
The movie producers did not privation anyone to unauthorisedly usage either the titles of the 2 movies, the quality depictions, posters, ocular imagery, dialogues, oregon different elements connected their merchandise oregon goods sold for a nett either done Amazon, Flipkart, Facebook, Instagram, oregon their ain websites.
Apart from Amazon Services, Flipkart Internet, and Meta Platforms, the suit had been filed against San Francisco-based Red Bubble Inc., New York-based TP Apparel LLC and Etsy Inc, Mumbai-based M2G Creations, Ahmedabad-based GIF VIF, Surat-based SN Enterprise, Nashik-based Turtlewings, and different chartless entities.
Justice Ramamoorthy ordered notices, returnable by April 15, 2026, to each the e-commerce platforms and different named entites seeking their effect to the interim injunction exertion filed by the accumulation house, and granted an ex-parte injunction till past since the plaintiffs feared that continued infringement of their copyright works would origin immense loss.
The accumulation location besides wanted Amazon, Flipkart, and Meta platforms to disclose the Know Your Customer (KYC) details of the traders who were selling connected their platforms the merchandise and different goods by printing the rubric of the 2 movies, creator works, quality depictions, dialogues, and different ocular imagery.
Block pirated versions
Passing interim orders connected different civilian suit filed by Reliance Industries, Justice Ramamoorthy granted an interim injunction restraining a big of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) dispersed crossed the state from permitting the hosting of pirated versions of Dhurandhar The Revenge scheduled to merchandise connected Thursday.
The justice directed the ISPs to artifact each the websites and webpages, including those that mightiness harvest up successful the future, which unauthorisedly transmit pirated versions of the the sequel of Dhurandhar, thereby infringing the copyright held by the accumulation location implicit the movie.
