1. The Civil Miscellaneous Appeal is directed against an order granting a temporary injunction. The seventh counter-petitioner in the court below is the appellant.

2. The respondent in this appeal filed a petition on 4121961 before the Subordinate Judge's Court of Quilon for settlement of his debts under S.15 of the Kerala Agriculturists Debt Relief Act, 1958. One of the debts included in the petition was a sum of Rs. 2,956- which he was liable to pay under an award of the Labour Court, Quilon, in proceedings under the Payment of Wages Act. The appellant had moved the Labour Court for relief in respect of wages due to him, and the award was passed as stated above. The award was sent to the Magistrate, Quilon, by the Labour Court for realisation of the sum. It was at that stage that this petition was filed and an interim injunction obtained ex parte. The appellant objected raising various grounds, but the objections were overruled and the interim order was made absolute. He has therefore preferred this civil miscellaneous appeal.

3. One of the points raised by the appellant is that even if the liability under the award is treated as a debt, the same having come into existe