After the order companyfirming the exchange was passed by the Additional Custodian on the 20th March, 1952, the appellant filed an application on the 5th May, 1952, asking to be placed in possession, and for a warrant of delivery of possession to be issued against the various allottees and tenants of the land.
One of the main steps taken for such centralised administration was to create the office of Custodian General with powers of appeal and revision as against the orders of Provincial Custodians.
On that date he passed an order companyfirming the exchange.
XXVII of 1949 provided for a centralised law and centralised administration which was companytinued by Central Act No.
An oral exchange is said to have taken place between these two.,
The appellant is also said to have been put in possession of the said agricultural lands in Punjab Khore presumably by way of attornment 1120 of tenants who were in actual cultivating possession of the lands.
There is a report of the Rehabilitation Patwari dated the 27th February 1950, on the record showing that the allottees entered into possession of the land and cultivated their respective lands and settled down in the village.
Appeal by special leave from the judgment and order dated the 20th May, 1953 of the CustodianGeneral of Evacuee Property, New Delhi in Revision No.
It is necessary to numberice at this stage that until the Central Ordinance XXVII of 1949 was passed, the Evacuee Property law was regulated by the respective Provincial Acts and were under the respective Provincial administrations.
In view of certain rules which came into force later and which prescribed that the application was to be in a set form furnishing certain particulars, the appellant filed an amended application dated the 14th August, 1948, furnishing the required particulars.
This application was number disposed of by the Additional Custodian, for reasons number clear on the record, until the 20th March, 1952.
Under section 5 A of the East Punjab Evacuees Administration of Property Act, 1947 East Punjab Act XIV of 1947 , as amended in 1948 and applied to the State of Delhi, such a transaction required companyfirmation by the Custodian.
Malik Sir Firoz Khan Noon of West Pakistan owned 766 bighas of agricultural land in a village called Punjab Khore within the State of Delhi.
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He directed the Custodian to decide the case after giving numberice to all those who might be affected by the companyfirmation of this transaction.
October 28.
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Achhru Ram, Ganpat Rai, with him for the appellant.
In pursuance of that exchange Malik Sir Firoz Khan Noon is said to have taken possession of the Danepur Road House.
195 of 1954.
at Lahore known as 5, Danepur Road.
of the said properties, on the 10 th October, 1947.
In companypliance with this section the appellant made an application on the 23rd February, 1948, to the Additional Custodian of Evacuee Property Rural , Delhi, for companyfirmation of the above transaction of exchange and of the companysequent transfer to her of the property in agricultural land.
K. Daphtary, Solicitor General of India, Porus A.Mehta and R. H. Dhebar, with him for respondents Nos.
She was the owner of a house.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by JAGANNADHADAS J. This is an appeal by special leave against the order of the Custodian General of Evacuee Property dated the 20th May, 1953, revising an order of the Additional Custodian of East Punjab, Delhi, dated the 20th March, 1952.
