JUDGMENT :

KAUSER EDAPPAGATH, J.

1. This original petition has been filed challenging Ext.P7 judgment passed by the Additional District Court, North Paravur (for short the appellate court) in CMA No. 25/2021, dated 16th October 2023.

2. The petitioner, the Federal Bank Ltd. is a banking company incorporated under the Indian Companies Act. The respondent is the Federal Bank Officers’ Association, a trade union which comprises officers in the cadre of Scale 1 to III (i.e. Assistant Managers, Managers and Senior Managers) of the petitioner’s Bank as its members. The petitioner instituted a suit as OS No. 204/2020 before the Munsiff’s Court, Aluva (for short ‘the trial court’) against the respondent for a permanent prohibitory injunction restraining the respondent, its members and supporters from obstructing the bank officials and customers from dealing with the bank, obstructing the ingress and egress of them, committing any acts of waste or damage to the bank’s property, holding any meeting or demonstration, dharna, erecting of tents, displaying posters and banners, shouting slogans within a radius of 200 metres from the premises of the head office, annex and nearby branches of the peti