1. The respondent in I.A. No 4754 of 1961 on the file of the court of the Additional Munsiff, Vaikom is the Civil Revision petitioner. The respondents before me filed O.S. No. 106 of 1961 for recovery of 1024 standard paras of paddy and 631/2 bundles of hay in kind or their value in money. They also filed I. A. No 4754 of 1961 for attachment before judgment of a quantity of paddy in the possession of the Civil Revision Petitioner. The lower court directed interim attachment and after hearing parties ordered the release of 400 paras of paddy to the plaintiffs. The lower court also directed that if the petitioner-defendant so desired, he could pay the value of the paddy at nirak rate and get the paddy released from attachment. It further directed the petitioner to file a statement showing the actual quantity of paddy required for cultivation purposes and also for the maintenance of himself, his wife and his minor dependents, observing that appropriate orders would be passed on that statement on hearing both sides. The revision petition is directed against the aforesaid order.

2. The learned counsel of the respondents has raised a preliminary objection to the maintainabilit