JUDGMENT

(Judgment of the Court was delivered by R. MAHADEVAN, J.)

st The appellant / applicant / 1 defendant has preferred this Original Side Appeal against the Order dated 11.11.2022 passed by the learned Judge in Application No.4299 of 2022 in Application No.2713 of 2022 in C.S.No.185 of 2014.

2. It is the case of the appellant that the first respondent instituted the aforesaid suit viz., C.S.No.185 of 2014 against the appellant and the respondents 2 to 4 herein seeking permanent injunction restraining them and their parties from publishing/ republishing, carrying out any reports or articles or telecasts or repeat telecasts or programs or debates or any discussion or reporting or publishing in any other manner, any other matter of any kind directly or indirectly pertaining to the alleged report of the third defendant or any other matter related to the said alleged statement and / or any news content relating to the plaintiff to acts of betting, spot fixing and match fixing of cricket matches or in any manner insinuating about the integrity and honesty of the plaintiff as a cricketer except the publication or news of the exact judicial order, if any, passed by this Court; and to pa