INDIRA SOHANLAL Vs. CUSTODIAN OF EVACUEE PROPERTY DELHI

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This is an appeal by special leave against the order of the Custodian-General of Evacuee Property dated 20-5-1953, revising an order of the Additional Custodian of East Punjab, Delhi, dated 20-3-1952. The two questions raised before us on the facts and circumstances, to be stated are (1) whether the Custodian-General had the revisional power which he purported to exercise, and (2) was the order of the Custodian-General on its merits such as to call for interference by this Court.

(2.) The appellant before us, one Mrs. Indira Shohanlal, is a displaced person from Lahore. She was the owner of a house at Lahore known as 5, Danepur Road, Malik Sir Firoz Khan Noon of West Pakistan owned 766 Bighas of agricultural land in a village called Punjab Khore within the State of Delhi. An oral exchange is said to have taken place between these two, of the said properties, on 10-10-1947.

(3.) To appreciate the first question that has been raised as to the validity of the exercise of revisional powers by the Custodian-General on the above facts, it is necessary to set out the course of the relevant legislative measures from time to time.