( 1 ) THIS is an application made by one Dhirendra Kumar Roy Chowdhury, as a member of an unincorporated society of persons known as the National Cricket Club, having its office at Eden Gardens, Calcutta. The facts are shortly as follows : There exists in the city of Calcutta, at a spot very near these Courts, an open space known as the Eden Gardens. In a part of the said Gardens there existed a cricket ground, which came into existence as far back as 1825. For a large number of years, and at the time when India attained independence, the cricket ground was in the* occupation of the Calcutta Cricket Club, the members whereof were mostly foreigners. After India attained independence, there was a move for taking over the lands and structures then in the possession of the Calcutta Cricket Club, and it appears that in or about 1950 an unincorporated association known as the National Cricket Club came into existence. The members of this Club raised a sum of about two lakhs and this was paid towards compensation received by the Calcutta Cricket Club, which, I am informed, has moved elsewhere. The National Cricket Club or the N. C. C. as it has come to be known, took possession