1. This writ applications has been filed by the petitioner for quashing the order of the Anchal Adhikari, Maner, dated 2.02.1979, annulling an earlier order dated 11.01.1978 by which the petitioner had been granted a parcha under the provisions of the Bihar Privileged Persons Home-stead Tenancy Act, 1947 (for short the Act).

2. The case of the petitioner is that he is a privileged person within the meaning of the Act and was entitled to the grant of the parcha with respect to the land over which he had constructed his residence and has been living for several years. The petitioners ancestors were residents of village Jamunipur situated on the southern bank of river Ganga. The whole of the village went into the bed of the river in the floods of 1960 and the residents were rehabilitated elsewhere. The Government also acquired certain lands for rehabilitation of the flood-stricken people, but according to the petitioners own case, no land was given to him. He, therefore, along with a co-villager (Ram Lachhan Singh) took shelter over 5 decimals of land towards the south-eastern corner of survey plot No. 538 under khata No. 221 in village Sarai Naner, belonging to respondent No.