JUDGMENT - Vaidya, J.

1. The petitioner Kekhasarao Sorabji Irani was born in Bombay in the year 1922. His father Sorabji Kekonad Irani came to India from Persia in the year 1902 to assist his sister in the business of running a restaurant in Bombay. Sorabji married in 1913 the petitioners mother Goharbai in Bombay. He continued his business in Bombay and settled down in India and never went back to his country of origin or went out to any other country till his death in the Sassoon Hospital at Poona. When Sorabji died, the petitioner was 7 months old. The petitioner was educated at Poona and passed his Matriculation examination in the year 1940. After passing the Matriculation examination he studied for a diploma course in Engineering in the Poona Engineering College. In 1944, he obtained a diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the College of Engineering at Poona. Thereafter the petitioner worked in a ammunition factory at Kirkhee, first as a supervisor trainee from May 1944 to November 1944, and then as supervisor B grade in Material Estimate Office from December 1944 to March 1946.

2. In 1947 the petitioner settled down in Sholapur. He has been running a general store and restaur

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