Order.- This is a petition by the Official Assignee, Madras, for orders declaring that the second and third respondents have no manner of right to the amount Rs.3,219-8-0, deposited in C.S.No.132 of 1952, on the file of this Court, and that the applicant alone is entitled to the same, and for an order permitting the applicant to draw out the said amount of Rs.3,219-8-0. The facts were briefly these: The Official Assignee is in charge of the properties of the insolvent, and the insolvency petition was admitted on 12th December, 1952. The third respondent filed O.S.No.662 of 1952 against the insolvent and obtained attachment before judgment of a house of the insolvent (who had not become|an insolvent by then) subject to a mortgage. He got a decree in that suit, for Rs.9,265 or so, on 23rd July, 1952, and the interim attachment was made absolute on 23rd July, 1952. At the instance of the mortgagee of the house, the auctioneers, Murray & Co., sold the house. After discharging the mortgagee’s dues, a balance of Rs.3,219-8-0 remained. The second respondent filed C.S.No.139 of 1952 on the file of this Court against the insolvent for dissolution of partnership and accounts, and took out a direction against the auctioneers and the mortgagee for depositing the balance of Rs.3,219-8-0 into Court. On 23rd February, 1953, the amount was directed by this Court to be deposited in Court to the credit of C.S.No.139. of 1952, to be disposed of, later on, by paying out to the correct party entitled to receive it. On 8th November, 1952, the third respondent filed E.P. No.2388 of 1952, in O.S.No.662 of 1952, in the City Civil Court, Madras, praying for the issue of an order for depositing the excess proceeds, of the sale held by the mortgagee through the auctioneers on 23rd October, 1952, or in other words, for bringing the excess of Rs.3,219-8-0 into the City Civil Court, for the third respondent to take the money out by way of execution and part satisfaction of his decree in O.S.No. 662 of 1952. The City Civil Court Judge passed an order on 10th November, 1952: “Interim Pro. Order and notice 29th November, 1952”. The City Civil Court Judge passed an order on 10th November, 1952: “Interim Pro. Order and notice 29th November, 1952”. But, as a matter of fact, it is admitted that the amount was not taken to the City Civil Court or put to the credit of O.S.No.662 of 1952 and the E.P. therein before 12th December, 1952, the date when the insolvency application was admitted. The amount still remains in this court. The question, under these circumstances, is whether the rights of the Official Assignee to the amount of Rs.3,219-8-0 should prevail over the rights of respondents 2 and 3 under section 53 of the Presidency Towns Insolvency Act, as it stands amended now by Act III of 1950. Respondent 2 does not contest the application by the Official Assignee. Respondent 3 appears by counsel and contests. I have heard the arguments of the learned Official Assignee and the learned counsel for the third respondent, and I have no hesitation whatever that the Official Assignee’s application should be allowed and he permitted to draw out the said amount of Rs.3,219-8-0, and respondent 3,. the attaching creditor, left to his remedies, like other ordinary creditors, of proving his debt and applying for a dividend before the Official Assignee. Mr. Harihara Iyer, for the third respondent, urged that, as the third respondent had not only got an interim order of attachment but also an absolute order of attachment and an interim prohibitory order and notice, before the admission of the insolvency petition on 12th December, 1952, the third respondent’s claim should prevail over the Official Assignee’s, and the third respondent should be allowed to have the sum of Rs.3,219-8-0 sent to the City Civil Court to the credit of O.S.No. 662 of 1952, and the E.P. therein, so that it may be drawn out by him in part satisfaction of his decree. The learned Official Assignee relied on a Full Bench ruling of this Court in Krishnaswami Mudaliar v. The Official Assignee, Madras1. The learned Official Assignee relied on a Full Bench ruling of this Court in Krishnaswami Mudaliar v. The Official Assignee, Madras1. There it was held that the effect of an attachment under the Civil Procedure Code is only to prevent alienation and that it does not confer title, but only gives the judgment-creditor certain rights in execution, and that an attachment will not operate when those rights are not exercised before the presentation of a petition in insolvency so as to create in favour of the judgment-creditor a title which prevails against that of the Official Assignee under the vesting order in insolvency, made after the order of attachment. Though the Privy Council seems to have remarked in Anantapadmanabhaswami v. The Official Receiver, Secunderabad2, that the above Full Bench decision required reconsideration, they actually refused to go into the question of its correctness or otherwise in that case as it was unnecessary for them to do so. A Full Bench of this Court, in Manickam Chettiar v. Income-tax Officer, Madura South3, re-affirmed the correctness of the previous Full Bench decision and said that an attaching creditor was not in the position of a secured creditor and the fact of his attachment would not prevail against the Official Assignee’s rights in insolvency, as the assets had not been realised in the course of the execution by sale or otherwise. Nor can Mr. Harihara Iyer’s reliance on the interim prohibitory order passed by the City Civil Judge, on 10th November, 1952, before the admission of the insolvency petition, be of any avail to him, as even that would not amount to realisation of the assets, but only to an attempt to realise the assets. Nor can Mr. Harihara Iyer’s reliance on the interim prohibitory order passed by the City Civil Judge, on 10th November, 1952, before the admission of the insolvency petition, be of any avail to him, as even that would not amount to realisation of the assets, but only to an attempt to realise the assets. In M. Sambayya v. The Official Receiver, Guntur, and others1, Raghava Rao, J., has held that the mere order, on an execution petition, to send for the money of the judgment-debtor would not be tantamount to an order realising the assets within the meaning of section 51 of the Provincial Insolvency Act (the wording of section 53 of the Presidency Towns Insolvency Act is the very same now), and that, therefore, when a petition to adjudicate the judgment-debtor is filed a few days after such an order, and the money is not in fact received by the court before the date of the petition, the prior order sending for the money cannot have the effect of bringing into operation the exception referred to in that subsection, and will not avail against the Official Receiver (here the Official Assignee) in insolvency. That decision covers the point in question, and I fully agree with the principle therein. It has been held by a Bench of this Court in Italia v. Official Assignee, Madras2that a mere attachment creates no charge, and that an attaching creditor is in no better position than any other ordinary creditor. That is, of course, the correct position in law so far as this State is concerned. This petition is, therefore, allowed, but, in the peculiar circumstances, and as it is a very hard case, without costs. K.S. ----- Petition allowed.