B. Siva Sankara Rao, J.

The defendant in O.S. No. 881 of 2017 on the file of the III Additional District Judge, Ranga Reddy District at L.B. Nagar, in the suit filed against him by the plaintiff entity for the relief of permanent prohibitory injunction restraining the defendant from working with the plaintiff's client organization i.e., Eastman Chemical India Private Limited on whose projects the defendant had worked in the 12 months, immediately preceding the defendant separated from the plaintiff entity, for a period of 12 months with effect from 13.05.2017 and for a direction to pay Rs. 7,00,000/- towards compensation/special/punitive/liquidated damages, financial loss said to have been caused by the defendant to the plaintiff entity on account of breach of the conditions of the employment agreement, dated 17.04.2015, from the temporary injunction application in I.A. No. 636 of 2017 filed by the plaintiff to grant temporary injunction restraining defendant from working with plaintiff's client organization supra or any other clients of plaintiff's company in whose projects the defendant had worked preceding the defendant separation from the plaintiff company that was on