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18. This is really where I take strenuous exception to the description of Menon J's order as 'ex parte'. That phrase, as we know, means 'without notice'. Nothing that Menon J did was without notice. No court is bound to endlessly adjourn cases, nor can advocates or parties presume that cases they are defending will be automatically adjourned, or that they need do nothing except remain absent.

19. In fact, what the submission really means is that the Defendants must be allowed to constantly invent some new objection at every stage, and must be allowed to succeed in their endeavour to ensure that nothing is ever deposited. It seems to me that having now suffered a final decree, the Defendants have appellate remedies open; but those appellate remedies come with a condition attached, viz., the requirement of a deposit, this being a 11th/13th March 2019 907-NMCD1170-18.DOC Rupinder Singh Arora v A To Z Retail Ltd & Ors money decree. That is the only thing the Defendants are so anxious to avoid. That is the one thing they strain every nerve to avoid. And that is why the Defendants do not instruct Mr Cama even now to offer a deposit of the entire amount ordered by Gupte J. There is no reason why the Defendants should be allowed to avoid the consequences of their failure to comply with Gupte J's conditional order.