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(1) Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Pvt. Ltd., the present plaintiff, has filed a suit for permanent and mandatory injunction whereby claiming a decree to restrain the defendants, their agents and supporters from picketing, demonstrating and gheraoing employees of the plaintiff company and from demonstrating within a distance of 200 meters from the entrance of the Express Building at Delhi and to further restrain the defendants, their agents and associates from preventing the ingress and egress of any employee of the plaintiff company, who wishes to enter the office of the plaintiff company. Along with the suit, the plaintiff filed an application being I.A. 8869/87 under Order 39 Rules I and 2 read with Section 151 of the Code of Civil Procedure for grant of ad interim temporary injunction thereby restraining the defendants from picketing, demonstrating within a distance of 200 meters from the gate of the Express Building, and also from assaulting or gheraoing any employee of the plaintiff company as also directing the Commissioner of Police and the S.H.O., Darya Ganj Police Station, to enforce the order passed in terms of the above prayer and further directing him to remove the tent of the defendants pitched at the entrance of the Express Building. Vide order dated 27th November, 1987, I granted ex parte ad interim injunction thereby restraining "defendants themselves or their agents or supporters are hereby restrained from preventing the ingress and egress of any employee of the plaintiff company who wishes to enter the office of the plaintiff company. Defendants, are further restrained from picketing within 50 metres of the Express Building situated at Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi." After service of the stay order, the defendants have moved an application being I.A. 8945/87 under Order 39 Rule 4 read with Section 151 of the Code of Civil Procedure for vacation of the ex parte stay order dated 27th November, 1987.