Order

Two neighbours are engaged in a long drawn fight in civil court on a small issue. The fight started at the lowest level (Munsiff’s Court) and they have now reached this apex Court with a side issue which emanated therefrom. Defendant in the suit has defined an order of ad-interim injunction and plaintiff in the suit moved for punitive action against him. The trial Court ordered him to be put in prison for one month. The order was confirmed by the appellate Court, but the High Court in revision quashed it. Plaintiff is still chasing his adversary on that issue and he has reached this court with the Special Leave Petition against the High Court’s order.

2. The subject-matter of the suit is a small space of land used as a means of access (gali) which abuts the house of both the parties. Plaintiff who filed the suit prayed for an ad-interim injunction order restraining the defendant from causing any obstruction to the use of the said space as a gali. The trial Court which granted the tempo­rary injunction order on 16.10.1984 required the defendant to maintain status-quo in regard to the suit property and subsequently the ad-interim order was made absolute. But within a month thereo