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PETITIONER: AMARSINGH
Vs.
RESPONDENT: CUSTODIAN, EVACUEE PROPERTY, PUNJAB
DATE OF JUDGMENT: 29/03/1957
BENCH: JAGANNADHADAS, B. BENCH: JAGANNADHADAS, B. BHAGWATI, NATWARLAL H. IMAM, SYED JAFFER MENON, P. GOVINDA KAPUR, J.L.
CITATION: 1957 AIR 599 1957 SCR 801
ACT: Evacuee property-Allotment-Displaced land-holders-Quasi. permanent allotment-Cancellation--Violation of Fundamental Rights-Constitution of India, Arts. 19(1)(f), 31(1), 31(2)- Administration of Evacuee Property Act, 1950 (XXXI of 1950).
HEADNOTE: The petitioners, who were displaced persons from Pakistan owning land therein, were also co-sharers in a joint khata owned by some evacuees in a suburban village in East Punjab. On their displacement they were in the first instance temporarily allotted agricultural land in that village. Subsequently, as a result of the readjustment of allotments of the suburban land amongst the various groups who had quasi-permanent allotments therein, which had to be carried out according to certain rules and instructions, the allotments of the petitioners were cancelled. The case of the petitioners was that the allotment to them was on a quasi. permanent basis and that, therefore, they had acquired certain rights in the land which constituted property, and they contended that the order cancelling the allotment was in violation of their fun...