1. The petitioner is the Principal and Professor of Zoology in the Sir Theyagaraya College, Madras, which is under the control and management of a committee represented by respondents 3 to 10 herein. On 26th, May 1975, the Committee of management of the College passed a resolution framing certain charges against the petitioner and he was asked to give his explanation for the said charges. The petitioner filed his explanation on 1st, July 1975. Thereafter, the committee of management proposed to convene a meeting for 25th August 1975 to consider the charges framed against the petitioner. The petitioner immediately filed O.S. 6051 of 1975 on the file of the City Civil Court, Madras and obtained an interim injunction in I.A. No. 16649 of 1975 restraining the committee from homing the meeting on the ground that the committee is not competent to function and as such they have no jurisdiction to pass any orders against the petitioner. The said interim order was, however, dissolved on 24th September 1975. The petitioner then preferred an appeal in C.M.A. No. 158 of 1975 against the said order which is said to be pending. However, at a meeting alleged to have been held on 26th,