Judgment

WANCHOO, J. : This is an appeal by special leave against the order of the Punjab High Court summarily rejecting a petition filed by the appellants under Art. 226 of the Constitution. The brief facts necessary for present purposes are these. The appellants migrate in 1947 from what is now West Pakistan and settled in two villages, viz., Sheikhapind and Kotla. They were given temporary allotment of agricultural land in the two villages under the East Punjab Evacuees (Administration of Property) Act (No. XIV of 1947), then in force. Thereafter a scheme was formulated in 1948 for quasi-permanent allotment of agricultural land to owners of land in West Pakistan after the East Punjab Refugees (Registration of Claims) Act (No. VIII of 1948) was enacted. In July 1949, a notification was issued stating the conditions under which allotment of agricultural land would be made to displaced persons from West Pakistan. This allotment was quasipermanent in the sense that it was to remain in force so long as the land was to remain vested in the Custodian of Evacuee Property. In pursuance of this notification, land was allotted in the two villages to the appellants on quasi-permanent basis