Judgment

FAZAL ALI, J.:- These two appeals by certificate are directed against judgments dated 9-10-1969 and, 10-10-1969 of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in Letters Patent Appeals Numbers 558 of 1968 and 570 of 1969 by which the contentions raised bad the appellants in the two appeals were rejected. After the matter came up in this Court the two appeals were consolidated as they arose out of almost the same subject-matter and involved identical points. The facts which have given rise to these appeals lie within a very narrow compass and may be briefly summarised thus.

2. The appellants were refugees from Pakistan and Sant Singh Nalwa was allotted 63 standard acres and 8 1/2 units in village Marghain and another area of 19 standard acres and 51/2 units in Garden Colony in Jundla which were entered as sailab land in the revenue records. The other appellant. Kartar Kaur, was allotted 96 acres, 3 bighas and 13 biswas in the same district. These lands were given to the appellants as they were displaced persons. After the appellants had become owners of the lands, the State of Punjab passed the Punjab Security of Land Tenures Act, 1953, (hereinafter referred to as the Act) which later