WANCHOO, C. J.

( 1 ) THIS is an application by Gangadhar under Article 226 of the Constitution of india for a writ of certiorari and prohibition against an order of the Custodian of evacuee Property, Rajasthan, and has arisen in the following circumstances.

( 2 ) ON the basis of an anonymous petition dated the 7th October, 1948, two bullocks were seized by the Sub Inspector of Police at a mela at Bharatpur. Enquiries started in connection with these bullocks, and it was said that they belonged to certain Muslims of village Sonoti, who had left for Pakistan. During the course of these enquiries, allegations were made that Gangadhar applicant and Prabhu, one of the opposite parties, who were the persons in, whose possession the two bullocks had been found, had looted the houses of Muslims of Sonoti along with others after these Muslims had run away. On these allegations, the Deputy Custodian of Evacuee Property started an enquiry about the alleged looting. Eventually, on the 22nd of September, 1950, the Deputy custodian, Bharatpur, decided the matter. He ordered that the two bullocks should remain in the custody of the Supurddar, presumably with the idea that they would be