Prathiba M. Singh, J.

1. The Plaintiff, Mr. Deepayan Mohanty (hereinafter ‘Plaintiff’) has filed the present suit under Order XXXVII CPC seeking recovery of a sum of Rs. 3,25,56,496/- along with interest against the Defendants which are the Cargill Group of Companies (hereinafter together referred as ‘Cargill). Cargill India Pvt. Ltd (Defendant No. 1) is the Indian subsidiary of the Cargill Group. The Plaintiff was employed in Defendant no.1 and was reporting to Cargill, TSF Asia Pvt. Ltd based in Singapore (Defendant No. 3), which is in turn a part of the Cargill Financial Services Company, a company incorporated in Delware, USA (Defendant No. 2).

2. The Plaintiff joined Bharat Cargill Holdings Pvt. Ltd. in November, 1996 and was transferred to Cargill India Pvt. Ltd in 1997. He was drawing his salary from the Indian company i.e. Defendant No.1. Within the Cargill Group, the Plaintiff belonged to a business unit called Trade and Structured Finance (TSF business) and was looking after the business of the group in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. He was reporting to the