( 1 ) IN Revla Khanpur, Delhi, 1290 Bighas5 Biswas of pasture land was lying vacant. The Gram Panchayat by its resolution dated 6-3-1973 made some allotment of land to 85 persons. This resolution could not be given effect to because the necessary permission from the Development Commissioner was not obtained. The Panchayat thereupon passed another resolution on 10-7-1973 by which 260 Bighas and 16 Biswas of land was allotted to 55 persons, one acre each, at the rate of Rs. 5. 00 per acre for five years. By this writ petition filed on 13-11-1973 these allotments were challenged by four persons) out of whom Chhotto at his request was deleted on 14-7-1982 from the array of the petitioners, leaving Tek Chand, Bale Ram and Bharat Singh as petitioners. The allottees were not made partics to this writ petion. On 15-11-1973, this court had stayed the operation of the said resolution.

( 2 ) THE first contention of Mr. 0. P. Tyagi, the learned counsel for the petitioners, is that under Sub-section (2) of Section 74 of the Delhi Land Reforms Act, 1954 (herein the Act), the Gaon Sabha alone has the power to admit any person as Asami on a five-years lease to any land which forms part