The petitioners are the son, daughter and grand daughters of one Henry Golak Nath, who died on July 30, 1953.
All the learned companynsel appearing for the parties, the Advocates General appearing for the States and the learned companynsel for the interveners have placed their respective viewpoints exhaustively before us.
58 of 1961 was the subject matter of debate, and by the decision of this Court pronounced on March 9, 1964, it was declared that the whole Act was invalid.
14 of the Constitution, filed a writ in this Court under Art.
153 of 1966, is filed by the petitioners therein against the State of Punjab and the Financial Commissioner, Punjab.
202 and 203 of 1966 were filed by different petitioners under Art.
In addition, in the first petition, numberice was given to the Advocates General of various States.
Three opinions were delivered by Gajendragadkar, C.J. on behalf of Wanchoo and Raghubar Dayal, JJ.
202 of 1966 one party intervened.
I found the reasoning in Sankari Prasads case 1952 S.C.R. 89 , to be unacceptable, although for reasons which I shall give, I refrained from expressing a final opinion.
and himself, by Mudholkar, J. and by me.
The decision of this Court was pronounced on December 5, 1961.
