CHANAN DAS MUKHI Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This is an appeal under clause 10 of the Letters Patent against the judgment of Gurnam Singh J., dismissing the appellant's petition under Art. 226 of the Constitution.

(2.) The appellant owned some land and some houses and other buildings in a village in Pakistan. On migration to India, he was allotted more than 4 standard acres of land. After, however, the Displaced Persons (Claims) Act, 1950, was enacted, he put in a separate claim for the village houses. The Act in question was designed primarily for the verification of claims concerning urban property, and Section 2 of that Act said -

(3.) The claims Officer found that none of the houses or buildings, regarding which the claim was made, was individually worth Rs. 20,000/-or more, and he therefore held that the claim was within the meaning of the notification inadmissible. It was against this order that the appellant brought a writ petition to this Court which Gurnam Singh J. dismissed following a Division Bench decision of this Court.