HUKAM CHAND SHYAM LAL Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This judgment will govern the disposal of these two appeals which arise out of a common judgment of the High Court of Delhi dismissing the writ petitions filed by the appellants and others under Art. 226 of the Constitution.

(2.) On November 27, 1972, the Administrator of Delhi, made an order under Section 5 of the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 (for short, the Act) authorising the Superintendent of Police, North District of take temporary possession "until further orders" of certain specified telephones installed in rooms and cabins of the building known as Coronation Hotel, Fatehpuri, Delhi. The order reads as under.

(3.) Another order in similar terms was made on December 4, 1972 by the Administrator for taking over certain other telephones.