K.N. Wanchoo, J.-This is an application by Ghaurul Hasan sb Rahim Bux, Abdul Ban sb Abdul Ganni, Mohammad Ayub s/o Abdul Ganni, Tahira Begum wife of Ghaurul Hasan, Vlst. Zebunnisa wife of Abdul Ban and Z.unurnd Begum wife of Mahammad Ayub under Article 226 of the Constitution challenging the order of the District Magistrate of Nagaur, dated the 8th of February 1957 by which the registration certificates issued to the applicants under the Citizenship Act (No. 57 of 1955) hereinafter called the Act, were cancelled and they were ordered to return to Pakistan within three days, failing which they would be deported according to law.

2. The case of the applicants was briefly this. The applicants were all horn in India, as it was before the partition of 1947. They migrated from the territory of India, as it is, after the partition of 1947 to the iterritory of Pakistan sometime in the year 1947. Thereafter they came to India on two occasions on temporary visits after obtaining passports and tried to obtain certificate for permanent settlement in India. Apparently they did not get the certificate for permanent settlement in India, though they have not said so in so many words. Ulti