The Judgment of the Court was delivered by RANGANATHAN, J. This is a batch of appeals and writ petitions challenging the validity of a numberification issued on.15.12.1986 by the Central Government under section 87 of the Punjab Reorganisation Act Act of Parliament No.
31 of 1966 , hereinafter referred to as the Reorganisation Act.
The writ petitions have been directly filed in this Court challenging the validity of the numberification.
By this numberification, the Central Government purported to extend to the Union Territory of Chandigarh hereinafter referred to also as Chandigarh the provisions of the East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Amendment Act, 1985 Punjab Act 2 of 1985 hereinafter referred to as the 1985 Act , as it was in force in the State of Punjab at the date of the numberification and subject to the modifications men tioned in the said numberification.
This ordi nance was allowed to lapse and was number enacted into law thereafter.
16.11.
The resultant position is that while the provisions of the principal Act had been brought into force in the Union Territory of Chandigarh w.e.f.
4.11.72 by an Act of Parliament, the provisions of the 1985 Act have been extend ed to the territory of Chandigarh by means of a numberification of the Central Government issued under s. 87.
After a brief reference to the history of the doctrine of abdication companytended for by the petitioner and a discussion of the Delhi Laws Act Case, Shelat J., with whom Subba Rao, CJ.
and Mitter J. agreed, accepted the companytention of the petitioner.
From the Judgment and Order dated 25.5.1988 of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in C.W.P. No.
Ramaswamy, Additional Solicitor General, Harbhawan Walia, Kapil Sibal, M.S. Gujral, Anil Dev Singh, M.R. Shar ma, D.V. Sehgal, Naresh Bakshi, R. Bana, Jitendra Sharma, M. Satin, S.K. Mehta, D. Mehta, Atul Nanda, P.N. Pun, B.B. Sawhney, M.C. Dhingra, A.K. Gupta, T.C. Sharma, Mrs. Sushma Suri, Ms. Indu Goswami, R.S. Yadav, Manoj Prasad, Manoj Swarup M.L. Verma, S. Bagga, D.S. Gupta, B.R. Kapur, Anis Ahmad Khan, S. Sehgal and K. Aggarwal for the appearing parties.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Civil Appeal No.
736 of 1987.
2448 of 1989 etc.
