JEE RAM AND OTHERS Vs. GOBIND AND OTHERS

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS is an appeal under Clause 10 of the Letters Patent and is directed against the decision of the learned Single Judge of this Court allowing the petition of respondents 1 to 3 under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India and setting aside the order of the Subordinate authorities allowing the tenant's applications for purchase under Section 18 of the Punjab Security of Land Tenures Act, 1953.

(2.) THE learned Single Judge has written a very elaborate judgment and it is not necessary in the present appeal to go into very minute details because we are entirely agreeing with the decision of the learned Single Judge.

(3.) MR . Sarin, learned counsel for the tenant, in the first instance, contended that admittedly all conditions of Section 18 are satisfied. It is also true that there is no determination of reserved area. According to the learned counsel, the mere fact that the landowner is a big landowner is enough to warrant the applications being allowed.