K. SAMPATH, J.

The suit C.S. No. 802/96 is for recovery of 616, 922.64 U.S. Dollars equivalent to approximately Rs. 2, 22, 10, 000/- calculated at the rate of 1 U.S. Dollar = Rs. 36/- on the date of the filing of the suit, for a permanent injunction restraining the respondents, their directors, partners, servants, agents, distributors, stockiest, representatives, assigns or any of them or by directly or indirectly entering into an agreement with any other hotel using the proprietary information and date, intellectual property, the Holiday Inn System and other inputs of the applicants, a decree for permanent prohibitory injunction restraining the respondents, their directors, partners, servants, agents, etc., or any of them from transferring, finalising, completing, furnishing and or operating any hotel other than the proposed hotel at Mount View, No. 1, G.S.T. Road, Guindy, Madras, a decree for permanent prohibitory injunction restraining the respondents jointly and severally, their directors, partners, etc., or any of them from passing off and/or enabling others to pass off their business and or hotel as and for the applicant's business and hotel by use of the name/trad