Ramaswami, J.

1. In this case the petitioner Maharani Prem Manjari Devi has moved the High Court for grant of a writ in the nature of certiorari to call up and quash certain proceedings instituted by the Additional Collector of Ranchi under Section 4(h), Bihar Land Reforms Act.

2. The petitioner claims that on 11-6-1951 her husband, the Maharaja of Chotanagpore, executed a settlement of trust granting beneficiary interest in seventy-one villages in favour of the petitioner. The petitioner states that the Maharaja executed the document since there was a tradition and family custom of giving Sindurtari at the time of the marriage. The case of the petitioner is that the transaction is bona fide. Previous to the execution of the deed the Bihar Land Reforms Act (30 of 1950) had been enacted by the State Legislature and the Act received the assent of the President on 11-9-1950. Acting under the provisions of Sec. 4(h) of the Act the Additional Collector of Ranchi issued a notice on 20-9-1952 to the petitioner asking her to show cause why the settlement should not be set aside on the ground that it was created with the object of defeating the provisions of the Bihar Land Reforms A