The Madras High Court in Somasundaram vs Chokkalingam(1) and Chittoori Venkatarao vs Chekka Suryanarayana (2) , the Bombay High Court in Kurgodigouda 'vs Ningangouda (8) and Hamidalli vs Ahmedalli (4) , the Patna High Court in Bhaunath vs Kedarnath(5), the Chief Court of Oudh in Chandika vs Bital(6), the Rangoon High Court in A.M.K.C.T. Muthuukarauppan Chettiar vs Annamalai(7), the High Court of Travancore Cochin in Kochu Vareed vs Mariyam(8), and the Madhya Pradesh High Court in Choudhary Hariram vs Pooran Singh(9) held that an application under section 144 of the Code of Civil Procedure was an application for execution of a decree, while it had been held by the High Court of Allahabad in Parmeshwar Singh vs Sitaldin Dube(") and other cases, the Calcutta High Court in Sarojebhushan vs Debendranath(11) and Hari Mohan Dalal vs Parmeshwar Shau(12) and other cases, the Nagpur High Court in Khwaja Allawali Kesarimal(13), and the Punjab High Court in Mela Ram vs Dharam Chand and Amrit Lal(14) that it was not an application for execution.