(Appeal filed under Order 36 Rule 11 of O.S. Rules read with Clause 15 of Letters Patent against the ad-interim ex-parte order dated 10.7.2003 passed by the learned single Judge in O,.A.No.599 of 2003 in C. S.No.477 of 2003, on the file of Original Side of this Court.)

The present appeal under Clause 15 of the Letters Patent is purported to be filed against the order dated 10.7.2003 passed by the learned single Judge in O.A.No.599 of 2003 arising out of C.S.No.477 of 2003 . Such C.S.No.477 of 2003 was filed by the present respondents for damages on the ground that the present appellants have published defamatory articles.

2. O.A.No.599 of 2003 was filed seeking for an order of injunction restraining the defendants (present appellants) from publishing in future publications, articles, caricatures, news items, cartoons, etc., defamatory or derogatory in nature in the Tamil Bi-weekly Nakkheeran or in any special editions thereof or any publication of the defendants without prior verification with the plaintiffs.

3. Such application was taken up on 10.7.2003 and the learned single Judge passed an ex parte order of injunction. The relevant portion of the order is to the follow