( 1 ) IF France had once been the inspiration of European culture, French Chandernagore can at least sun be described as a prolific source here of Indian Constitutional law. Numerous cases have come to the Court from what used to be the French Settlement of Chandernagore and their decisions now enrich the constitutional law of India. The petitioners in this case from Chandernagore challenge the validity of a requisition of land under Section 3 (1) of the West Bengal Land (Requisition and Acquisition) Act of 1948 (West Bengal Act II of 1948 ). If the decayed City gates of former French Chandernagore still display the three famous ideals of the French Republic from out of the French Revolution, "liberte, Egalite and. Fraternite", this petition from Chandernagore, by a strange irony of fate, claims neither equality, nor fraternity with the rest of India. This petition claims that this West Bengal statute should be excluded from what was formerly known as the french Chandernagore, but now an integral part of the territory of the independent Republic of India.

( 2 ) THE orders of requisition against which the present complaint is made in the petition are issued by t