( 1 ) THESE are appeals against the judgment of our learned brother bhimasankaram, J,, in a batch of petitions under Article 226 of the Constitution of India filed by the various appellants for the issue of writs of mandamus or other appropriate writs directing the responent to forbear from enforcing the orders directing the appellants to quit the State within a prescribed date.

( 2 ) THE material facts are similar in all the appeals. It would be sufficient therefore, as the learned Judge did, to state the facts in Writ Appeal No. 53 of 1957. The appellant was born on 5th October, 1912, in the Village of Thukhayi, Tehsil barshore, Taluk Pishin, Quetta District in Baluchistan, which was formerly a part of British India. In 1940, he left his native place and settled down at Kowur, which was then part of Madras State and is now part of Andhra Pradesh. He started business in that place and was eking out his livelihood. He married at Kowur one Amirunnisa, whose father was a permanent resident of that place and was employed in Government service, and his two children weie born and bred up there. He purchased a site and constructed a house worth about Rs. 10,000 and he has