misra advocate general for the state of u. p. and gopi nath dixit for the respondent.
achhru ram j. p. goyal and k. l. mehta for the petitioners.
the applicants are four brothers holding land in village banat tahsil kairana district muzaffarnagar.
the petitioners challenge the companystitutionality of the act on various grounds of which the following five have been urged before us section 6 read with s. 4 of the act gives arbitrary powers to the state government to accord discriminatory treatment to tenure holders in different villages by placing some villages under companysolidation while excluding others thus offending art.
n. sanyal additional solicitor general of india k.l.
original jurisdiction writ petition number 119 of 1957.
objections to these proposals were filed by the petitioners and others which were decided in april 1956.
the petitioners went in appeal to the settlement officer companysolidation which was decided in august 1957.
the judgment of the companyrt was delivered by wanchoo j. this petition under art.
it was thereafter that the present petition was filed in this court.
32 of the companystitution challenges the companystitutionality of the p. companysolidation of holdings act u. p. v of 1954 as amended by u. p. acts number xxvi of 1954 number xiii of 1955 number xx of 1955 number xxiv of 1956 and number xvi of 1957 hereinafter called the act .
a numberification was issued under s. 4 of the act in respect of 223 villages in tahsil kairana declaring that the state government had decided to make a scheme of companysolidation in that area.
december 17.
