C. HARI SHANKAR, J.

1. The order, dated 11th September 2017, under challenge in the present appeal, has been passed by the learned Single Judge in IA 9618/2017, preferred by Respondent No. 1 – Chhaya Devi – under Order XXXIX Rules 1 and 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (“the CPC”), in CS (OS) 285/2017.

2. The affairs forming subject matter of the present proceedings concern M/s Prabhat Zarda Factory (India) Pvt. Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “PZFIPL”), which is engaged in the manufacture of chewing tobacco and associated products. M/s Prabhat Zarda Factory was conceived as a sole proprietorship of Lalit Kumar Arya in 1962, and, subsequently, metamorphosed into a partnership in 1965 and into the present private limited Company in June 1985 – originally named M/s Prabhat Zarda Factory (Muzpur) Pvt. Ltd. and later rechristened as PZFIPL on 27th March 1991.

The Dramatis Personae

3. First, to introduce the dramatis personae, eschewing honorifics for ease of reference.

4. Lalit Kumar Arya and Rukmini Devi were husband and wife. They had three sons – Jyoti Kumar Arya (