DISTRICT MAGISTRATE MEERUT Vs. JAGDISH SARAN RASTOGI

JUDGEMENT

(1.) G. C. Mathur, J.

(2.) THIS is an appeal by the District Magistrate, Meerut, against the judgment of a learned single Judge quashing an order of requisition dated July 13, 1973. By this order a residential house was sought to be requisitioned. The order recited that one Mahesh Prakash was living as a tenant in the house and that he had suitable alternative accommodation available to him. It further recited that the landlord, respondent in this appeal, was also in possession of. spacious accommodation and his need for the requisitioned house did not exist. However, the order did not recite the actual purpose for which the house was being requisitioned. All it stated was that the house was urgently required for public purpose. The order was quashed by the learned single Judge on the ground that neither the order itself nor the counter affidavit showed what the actual purpose was.