ORDER :

1. This is a petition under Article 226 of the Constitution praying for the issue of a writ in the nature of mandamus directing the Custodian of Evacuee Property, the Jagir, Administrator and the Officer-in-Charge, Pension Payment office (Respondents, 1, 2 and 3 herein) to settle the claim of the petitioner in respect of the instalments of the commutation sum due and payable to her under the Hyderabad Jagirs (Commutation; Regulation, 1359 F. in Khata No. 1, and which have been unlawfully withheld.

2. The undisputed facts are as follows: The petitioner was a Jagirdar of the erstwhile Hyderabad State and after the abolition of ‘Jagirs’ the instalments of the commutation sum due to her were being collected by her agent as per the payment order made by the Jagir Administrator. This went on without let or hindrance up to the end of the first quarter of 1956-1957 and the last payment was received by the petitioner's agent on 24-7-1956. Further payments were, however, stopped on the ostensible ground that the petitioner had acquired Pakistan nationality.

3. The petitioner appears to have left India in April, 1955 and acquired Pakistan nationality, in July, 1955. But her property h