( 1 ) THE respondent D. P. Sharma is the owner of a building named "sunitha bhavan" on Tippu Sulatan Palace Road, at Bangalore. On 18-11-1982, he leased it out to the appellant Smt. D. Shakuntala for running a hotel-restaurant under a lease deed on a monthly rent of Rs. 4500/- for a period of 5 years. The appellant appears to have added some amenities like kitchen on the first-floor and a hotel called 'hotel Kamadenu' was being run in the said premises by a partnership firm which appears to have later come into existence between the said D. Shakuntala and one A. N. Ahuja. It appears, in 1988 there was no smooth sailing for this hotel. There was labour unrest and the hotel was being run under loss. The partnership even thought of closing it down. It appears, the employees of the hotel were against the closing down of the establishment and the partnership was not happy with them. A suit for injunction in O. S. No. 572/88 came to be filed before the city Civil Court against the employees of the hotel for a decree restraining them permanently from disturbing the peaceful possession of the partnership of the hotel and also from preventing ingress and egress to the same and