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Tatas move Delhi high court against web game

The Tata group has approached the Delhi high court against the international environmental non-government organisation Greenpeace to have the ‘Turtle v Tata’ game from the latters website.

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The Tata group has approached the Delhi high court against the international environmental non-government organisation Greenpeace to have the ‘Turtle v Tata’ game from the latters website.

Slapping a defamation suit of Rs10 crore on Greenpeace on Friday, Tata Sons also filed a trademark infringement case against the game, which seeks to highlight the alleged threat to the Olive Ridley turtles by Tata-L&T’s upcoming Dhamra private port in Orissa.

Admitting the appeal, a division bench of Justices Vikramjit Sen and Siddharth Mridul issued notice to the Greenpeace and asked them to file their replies by April 5.

The Tatas had challenged the single bench’s order of last month wherein the judge had held that the TATA trademark and logo is not used for commercial purposes or for trade by the non-governmental organisation (NGO). The court had also refused to direct Greenpeace to immediately take down the Pacman-style video game ‘Turtle vs Tata’ from its website.

In the game, launched by the NGO last year on the 30th anniversary of Pacman, the player is a turtle that has to eat as much healthy food as it can, avoiding the Tata ‘demons’ that threaten its home.

The Tatas’ petition stated, “The aim of the colourful and noisy video game is to help the yellow turtles eat as many little white dots as possible without running into Ratty, Matty, Natty or Tinku…”

The Dhamra port project, proposed in the 1990s, is close to the Bhitarkanika National Park and Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary, an area that houses endangered species such as the turtle and the saltwater crocodile.

“Tata is not the main beneficiary of the port project and the port project is that of government of Orissa,” say the Tata petition, maintaining that the construction of the port does not violate the forest conservation act and that it has stood by an environmental assessment of the location carried out in 1999, when the port was first proposed.

According to Greenpeace, Tata Steel has been building a deep-water port less than 15km from one of the biggest nesting sites of the endangered turtle. But the Tatas stated that they have all clearances from state departments and have demanded an apology.

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