Per DHABE H.W., J.:---The petitioner challenges in this writ petition the constitutional validity of the Goa, Daman and Diu Legislative Diploma No. 2070 dated 15-4-1961 (Amendment) Act, 1984, for short, ""the Amending Act"" and also the Rules framed by the State Government under its Notification dated 25-11-1985. He also challenges the allotment of lands on leases to the respondents 1 to 12 made by the respondent No. 16.

2. Briefly, the facts are that the petitioner is a 'jonoeiro' of the Comunidade of Pilerne, Bardez, Goa. He made an application on 17-8-1984 addressed to the Lieutenant Governor of Goa for allotment of a plot of land belonging to the Comunidade of Pilerne, known as ""Goddi-Baim"" and bearing lot No. 341 and surveyed under Survey No. 53/1. According to the petitioner, he did not and does not own any land. On 21-8-1984, the petitioner received a letter from the Administrator of Comunidades of Bardez, i.e. the respondent No. 14, that he should give a fresh application giving all the particulars as required by Article 329 of the Code of Comunidades as also a site plan of the plot in duplicate. Accordingly, the petitioner submitted a fresh application on 1-12-1984 for al

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