( 1 ) RESPONDENT No. 1 (plaintiff No. 11 is a registered partnership firm of which the appellants and other respondents are partners. The firm deals in manufacture and sale of bidi and has extensive property. It has accounts in different banks. It appears that the two appellants on one side and the respondents 2 to 7 on the other have now formed two separate groups and their interests are adverse to each other. The respondents feel that the recent activities of appellants are adverse to the interest of the partnership and therefore, in order to prevent them from continuing such activities, they brought a suit claiming declaration that they to the exclusion of the appellants are en- titled to conduct the business of the partnership only in consultation with the appellants, the appellants cannot oust the plaintiffs from controlling the management of the affairs of the partnership firm, and that the appellant be injuncted either personally or through their agents from entering the business premises of the firm and from interfering with the management of the firm in any manner whatsoever. An injunction is also claimed restraining the appellants from interfering with day