4 herein, by an order dated 3.3.1961, declared an area of 132 standard acres, 111/2 units, out of the aforesaid land, as surplus area of the Mahant under the Punjab Security of Land Tenures Act, 1953 to be hereafter called the Act .
A revision preferred by the appellants before the Financial Commissioner met the same fate on 25.1.1963.
On 18.9.1961, the Special Collector excluded the entire area of Respondent 5 in the revenue estate of village Dosanjh Kalan from the surplus pool.
The Collector allowed this area to Jagga Respondent 6 and his brother, Meet Singh, as their permissible area on the ground that they were tenants of this land on 15.4.1953.
7, and possession thereof was given to them On 15.6.1961 in accordance with Rule 20 of the Punjab Security of Land Tenures Rules, 1856 hereinafter called the Rules .
This excluded area included the aforesaid 13 standard acres and 111/2 units that had been allotted to the appellants.
The Commissioner dismissed this appeal.
Aggrieved, the appellants carried an appeal to the Commissioner Respondent 3 , companytending inter alia that Jagga and Meet Singh were number tenants of this land on the crucial date i.e. 15.4.1953.
5, owned 182 tandard acres and 11 units of land in several villages in the districts of Ambala, Hoshiarpur and Jullundur.
173 of 1963 in the High Court.
Out of this surplus area, land admeasuring 13 standard acres and 11/2 units situate in the revenue estate of Dosanjh Kalan Phillaur was allotted by the Circle Revenue Officer to the appellants and Respondent No.
Against that order of the learned judge, Jagga preferred an appeal before a Division Bench of the High Court.
The Special Collector, Chandigarh, Respondent No.
S. Sarkaria, J. This appeal by special leave is directed against a judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court summarily dismissing the Letters Patent Appeal filed by the present appellants.
Mahant Gurnarain, Respondent No.
To impugn these orders of the Special Collector, the Commissioner and the Financial Commissioner, the appellants filed a writ petition No.
