JUDGMENT

P.K. Balasubramanyan, J. - Leave granted.

Heard both sides.

1. Defendant No.1 in C.S. No. 644 of 2003 filed on the Original Side of the High Court of Madras is the appellant. The appeal challenges the grant of an interim injunction by the Division Bench of the High Court in favour of the plaintiff, respondent No.1 herein, pending the suit. The suit was filed by the plaintiff for a mandatory injunction restraining defendants 1 and 2 jointly or severally from taking possession of or interfering with the use of or exercising any right of lien, charge or from issuing notice in any form or from creating any kind of disturbance or from attaching otherwise or raising a claim in respect of certain capacitor banks systems allegedly supplied by the plaintiff and installed at various substations of Transmission Corporation for Andhra Pradesh (for short, APTRANSCO) and for award of the costs of the suit. In that suit, the plaintiff filed O.A. No. 806 of 2003 under Order XXXIX Rules 1 and 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure seeking an interim injunction along the same lines to enure during the suit. The suit was filed when defendant No. 1 issued a notice to the plaintiff and defendant No