1. The respondent filed O.S. No. 863/94 on the file of the First Additional District Munsif, Tiruchirapalli, for declaration that the action of the second defendant and the first defendant in not having published the seniority list dated 28.2.1990 in respect of the Managers in the defendants bank by placing the plaintiff in the 8th place is arbitrary, ultra vires and void and for consequential relief of permanent injunction restraining the defendants from promoting the Managers to fill up the vacancy for the post of Assistant Secretary as and when it arises by abiding void seniority list. In short, the respondent is questioning the seniority list published by the petitioners. Pending the suit, the respondent filed I.A. No. 473 of 1994 for an injunction restraining the petitioners herein from exercising the power of promoting any Manager to the post of Assistant Secretary on the basis of the void seniority list. The Additional District Munsif passed an order on 22.6.1994 in the following terms:

“Heard. Perused the documents. I am satisfied prima facie case is there. If ad-interim injunction is not granted, petitioner will be put into irreparable loss. Hence, ad interim inj