( 1 ) WHEN this case was heard, the caution noted by Lord Hewart in his book "the New Despotism" (1929) that bureaucracy had become true rulers, of the country and which caution led to several reforms in the Administrative Law of England, loomed large in the mind of the Court. With the advent of the Indian Constitution, the Indian people thought that (heir person and property are protected and they can be deprived only in accordance with law. That constitutional belief has been belied by the bureaucrats in this case. This case highlights how irresponsible bureaucrats who are meant to respect and implement the law do something in utter violation of the law and the Constitution and sit quite comfortably without least botheration to introspect their illegal actions and undo the thing which ought not to have been done.

( 2 ) THE petitioners 9 in number are joint pattedars of 15 acres 13 guntas of wet agricultural land comprised in Survey Nos. 630, 631, 632, 633, 646 and 647 of Rampally Diara (Kalimguda) village of Keesara Mandat of Ranga Reddy district. The petitioners are agriculturists and the land was under their personal cultivation before the same was taken over for