Judgement

JAGANNADHADAS J. : This is an appeal by special leave against the order of the Custodian-General of Evacuee Property dated 20-5-1953, revising an order of the Additional Custodian of East Punjab, Delhi, dated 20-3-1952. The two questions raised before us on the facts and circumstances, to be stated are (1) whether the Custodian-General had the revisional power which he purported to exercise, and (2) was the order of the Custodian-General on its merits such as to call for interference by this Court.

2. The appellant before us, one Mrs. Indira Shohanlal, is a displaced person from Lahore. She was the owner of a house at Lahore known as 5, Danepur Road, 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. An oral exchange is said to have taken place between these two, of the said properties, on 10-10-1947.

In pursuance of that exchange Malik Sir Firoz Khan Noon is said to have taken possession of the Danepur Road House. The appellant is also said to have been put in possession of the said agricultural lands in Punjab Khore presumably by way of attornment of tenants who were in actual cultiva