JUDGMENT :

R. Subbiah, J.

(Prayer : Appeal filed under Clause 15 of The Letters Patent 1865 and Order XXXVI Rule 1 of The Original Side Rules against the Order dated 20.10.2017 passed in O.A. No. 673 of 2017 in C.S. No. 529 of 2017 on the file of this Court.)

1. This intra-court appeal has been preferred against the Order dated 20.10.2017 passed by the learned single Judge of this Court in O.A. No. 673 of 2017 in C.S. No. 529 of 2017, whereby the appellant/defendant was restrained from making any statement or remarks, disparaging the applicants/respondents, or the products manufactured by them either in print or visual media, by making baseless accusations of adulteration against private dairies in Tamil Nadu as a whole, pending disposal of the suit.

2. The appellant herein is the defendant in the suit filed by the respondents in C.S. No. 529 of 2017. The suit was filed by the respondents for the following reliefs :-

(i) To direct the defendant to pay the first plaintiff a sum of Rs.1,00,00,000/- towards damages suffered by the plaintiff as a direct consequence of the defendant's statement made in TV channels and other medias against the first plaintiff's milk and milk products, togethe