The Rajpramukh the head of the United State and the President of India had passed orders from time to time fixing his allowance at amounts lower than that at which it had been fixed by the Ruler of Nagod on March 7, 1948.
Appeal by special leave from the judgment and decree, dated December 16, 1960 of the Madhya Pradesh High Court in First Appeal No.
Sen. M. N. Shroff and I. N. Shroff, for the appellants.
The suit was dismissed by the trial Court but was decreed by the High Court of Madhya Pradesh on appeal by the plaintiff.
S. Pathak and C. P. Lal, for respondents 1 a 1 c .
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These were, however, executive orders and number laws.
Thereafter the United State merged in India by an agreement and pursuant thereto the Government of India took over its administration on January 1, 1950.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by Sarkar, J. This appeal arises out of a suit filed on August 10, 1956 by Shri Lal Saheb Bhargavendra Singh, number deceased and represented by his legal representatives, against the Union of India, the State of Vindhya Pradesh, number merged in the State of Madhya Pradesh, and the Collector of Satna, for a declaration that he was entitled to receive an allowance of Rs.
Certain events that took place after March 7, 1948 when the allowance was fixed have number to be stated.
Its territories then became the Indian province of Vindhya Pradesh The United State ceased to exist.
Hence this appeal.
105 of 1957.
L. Hathi and R. N. Sachthey, for respondents No.
They companyld number reduce the amount of allowance to Shri Lal Saheb fixed by the Ruler of Nagod on March 7, 1948, if he had done so by a law.
There was another claim but that depended on the declaratory relief claimed and need number, therefore, be referred to further.
738 of 1963.
650 per month from the Union of India.
On March 18, 1948, the Ruler of Nagod along with the Rulers of various neighbouring ruling States formed a new State called the United State of Vindhya Pradesh into which the companyponent States were merged thereby losing their sovereign status.
650 per month and that law was binding on the defendants who had by an executive order illegally altered the amount of the maintenance.
Shri Lal Saheb was the brother of the Ruler of the former Indian State of Nagod and he companytended that the Ruler had by a law passed on March 7, 1948 provided for an allowance for him at the rate of Rs.
It was on this basis that the claim was made.
