( 1 ) THIS is a suit for an injunction restraining the defendant during the continuance of the agreement of employment dated November 22, 1957 from giving his services or advice to any person or company whatsoever other than the plaintiff or from becoming interested or engaged in any enterprise or undertaking either alone or jointly with other or any other in any business or trade Other than the plaintiff's business or trade. The plaintiff is a limited company and carries on business mainly of manufacture of paper. The plaintiff runs a scheme to train up graduates fresh from the Universities, inter alia, in the manufacture of paper on their agreeing to serve the plaintiff and/or the companies under the management of the managing agents and/or their allied concerns for 17 years after completion of an apprenticeship period of 3 years. In pursuance of the scheme the plaintiff issued advertisements for recruitment of apprentices and the defendant, who had graduated from the Bombay University, applied to the plaintiff on or about June 28, 1957 for being taken in as an apprentice under the plaintiffs scheme.

( 2 ) BY an agreement dated November 22, 1957 the plaintiff agre