JUDGMENT

G.S.PATEL, J. - A. BACKGROUND & LITIGATION HISTORY : This common order and judgment will dispose of a group of Appeals and their associated Notices of Motion. There are four Appeals before us:

(i) Appeal No. 158 of 2017, where the Appellant is now only one Dipesh Mehta (there were originally three others, but they have withdrawn from the Appeal and accepted the impugned order) is against an interim order (SC Gupte J) dtd. 29/10/2015 in a Notice of Motion in Suit No 573 of 2014;

(ii) Appeal No. 347 of 2016 by one Lalit Agarwal against the same order of Gupte J in a Notice of Motion in Suit No. 573 of 2014.

(iii) Appeal No. 323 of 2014 is by Dipesh Mehta against an order of 7/5/2014 (Mrs Rs. Dalvi J) in a Notice of Motion in Suit No 573 of 2014.

(iv) Appeal No. 324 of 2014, again by Dipesh Mehta (and originally others) also against the order of 7/5/2014 in a Notice of Motion in Suit No 111 of 2014.

2. The litigation history is complex. It has gone through many twists and turns over the last seven years. The litigation has also taken an unconscionable amount of the Court's time given the narrow nature of the controversy before us.

3. What we are concerned with is an elite memb