SRINIVASAN, J. :- We passed an order in C.M.P. Nos. 2977 to 2979 of 1987 on 7th January 1988, making the interim stay absolute on certain conditions with regard to the deposit of the amount awarded as compensation. It was found by us that the order against which the appeals have been filed was an ad interim ex parte order made by a learned single Judge of this court, in which he directed the appellant to deposit one-fourth of the compensation awarded within eight weeks from the date of the order.

The learned Judge had also stayed further proceedings pending further orders on the petition. It is against the said ad interim order, these appeals have been filed.

2. We are very much concerned to note a disturbing tendency that is fast developing now-a-days. In the recent past, we have come across several matters in which appeals are filed against ad interim ex parte orders without resorting to the normal course of approaching the court which passed such orders and seeking appropriate further orders in spite of the law having been clearly laid down by a Division Bench of this Court in Abdul Shukoor v. Umachander AIR 1976 Mad 350. No doubt, that case arose out of an order emanatin