JUDGMENT

SARKARIA, J.:— This appeal by certificate is directed against an order dated 2-9-1968, of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana dismissing in limine a writ petition filed by the appellant, to impugn certain orders of the Collector, the Commissioner and the Financial commissioner passed in proceedings under the Punjab Security of Land Tenures Act (hereinafter called the Act).

2. The facts are as follows:

3. The appellant owns land in village Desu Malkana, Tehsil Sirsa, District Hissar in the State of Haryana.

4. In proceedings under the Punjab Security of Land Tenures Act (hereinafter referred to as the Act), the Collector, Surplus Area, Sirsa, on February 21, 1961, held that since the total holding of the appellant did not exceed 30 standard acres, there was no surplus area with him.

5. Subsequently, it came to the notice of the Collector that the appellant was, in fact, holding much more than the coiling of 60 ordinary acres fixed under Section 2(2) of the Act. He, therefore, issued notice to the appellant, why the order be not reviewed. According to the recital in the Collectors order, this notice was served on him. The appellant did not appear and on June 5, 1962, the Collec