Appeal by special leave from the judgment and order dated 1 8 1974 of the High Court of Rajasthan in D. B. Civil Special Appeal No.
Jaila Singh, the appellant in Civil Appeal No.
1704 of 1974 ,as allotted 50 bighas of uncommand land in the years 1956 57 and 1957 58 in the Ganganagar District of the Rajasthan State.
Niren De, Attorney General of India, S. T. Desai, G. Kashliwal and S. M. Jain, for the respondents in C. As.
1704 1705/74 .
He prayed that Rajasthan Coloni sation Act, 1954 may be declared to be illegal or in the alternative the Post 1955 Rules may be declared to be violative of Article 14 of the companystitution and for an appropriate order in respect of the lands allotted to him.
1704 1705/74 .
Sahi Ram, the husband of the appellant in, Civil Appeal No.
1704 1705/74 .
In 1967 the Rajasthan Colonisation Rajasthan Canal Project Government Land Allotment and Sale Rules, 1967 were promulgated and applications were invited for allotment of land under those rules.
He had also been allotted 12 1/2 bighas of companymand land in the year 1952 oil a permanent basis and 6 bighas and 12 biswas of companymand land and 4 bighas and 11 biswas of uncommand land for permanent cultivation.
The area in which the land is situate was declared a Colony Area of the Rajasthan Canal Project under the Act in 1960.
In the writ petition filed by the appellant the companytentions and prayers were the same as in Jaila Singhs case.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Civil Appeals Nos.
B. Badachanji and K. J. John, for the intervener In C. As.
Applications were again invited for allotment of land under the Post 1955 Rules and Jaila Singh was allotted another 10 bighas of land.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by ALAGIRISWAMI, J. These appeals raise the question of the validity of certain rules made under the Rajasthan Colonisation Act, 1954.
1705 of 1974, had been allotted 24 1/2 bighas of land for temporary cultivation in Rajasthan Canal Area in Ganganagar District.
Jaila Singhs application for allotment was disposed of on 27 12 1969 by allotting 14 bighas and 14 biswas of land on permanent basis.
These lands were included in the Colony Area the Rajasthan Canal Project in 1960.
The rest of the land originally allotted to him reverted to the State.
1704 1705 of 1974 .
The facts necessary for the decision of this case are as follows.
He filed a writ petition before the Rajasthan High Court challenging the Post 1955 Rules as violative of Article 14 of the Constitution.
After the post 1955 Rules came into force the 24 1/2 bighas of land was ordered to be resumed on the round that Sahi Ram was number a landless person.
L. Sanghi S. R. Srivastava, Manmohan Mridul and Badri Dass Sharma for the appellants in C. As.
415 and 237 of 1974.
