The appellants had applied for companypensation to the Jagir Abolition Officer, Baroda under s. 13 of the Bombay Merged Territories Areas Jagirs Abolition Act, 1953, hereinafter referred to as the Jagirs Abolition Act, in respect of their proprietary jagirs.
227 of the Constitution of India for quashing the order of the Gujarat Revenue Tribunal dated July 18, 1961.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Appeals by special leave from the judgments and orders dated November 27, 1961 of the Gujarat High Court in Special Civil Applications Nos.
Against the award of companypensation made by the Jagir Abolition Officer the appellants preferred appeals under s. 16 of the Jagirs Abolition Act.
All these appeals were ultimately dismissed by the Tribunal for number prosecution on account of number appearance of the advocate of the appellants.
Although these appeals were filed before the Revenue, Tribunal at Bombay, the appeals were transferred, on the bifurcation of Bombay State, to the Gujarat Revenue Tribunal at Ahmedabad, hereinafter called the Tribunal.
Arun Naginlal Surti, B. Datta and J. B. Dadachanji, for the appellants.
Aggrieved by the order of dismissal of the restoration applications the appellants moved the High Court of Gujarat under Art.
The appellants companytended that since the orders passed dismissing the appeals were received by them on April 9 and April 20, 1961, the restitution applications filed on May 6, 1961 were within 30 days of the receipt of the order of dismissal and hence the applications for restoration were made in time under Regulation 21 of the Bombay Revenue Tribunal Regulations.
In deciding an appeal under this Act the Bombay Revenue Tribunal shall exercise all the powers which a companyrt has and shall follow the same procedure which a Court follows in deciding appeals from the decree or order of an original Court under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908.
The appellants also prayed that the applications for restoration should be allowed as they were prevented for sufficient cause from appearing at the hearing of the appeals.
Against the dismissal of the appeals for number prosecution the appellants filed applications for restoration before the Tribunal on May 6, 1961.
K. Sen, M. S. K. Sastri and B. R. G. K. Achar, for the respondents.
704 and 707 of 1961.
704 to 707 of 1961 which had been filed by the appellants under Art.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by Ramaswami, J. These four companysolidated appeals are brought, by special leave, against the order of the High Court of Gujarat dated November 27, 1961 summarily dismissing four Special Civil Applications Nos.
