KUNWAR VIR RAJINDRA SINGH Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India is directed against the order of the President recognising his Highness Maharaj Rana Shri Hemant Singh as the Ruler of Dholpur State. This notification was published in the Gazette of India dated the 22nd of December, 1956, as SRO 3086, in Part II, Section 3.

(2.) THE last Ruler of the State was Maharaj Rana Udai Bhan Singh. He died on the 22nd of October, 1954, without leaving any direct male lineal descendant. The following pedigree -table will disclose the relations he left behind:

(3.) IN order to ascertain as to who was best entitled to succeed as the Ruler, Government of India issued a notification dated the 12th February, 1955, appointing a Committee to examine the claims of the various claimants. This Committee was to submit its report to the Government by the 1st of April, 1955. The Committee was constituted as under: