Wanchoo, C.J.—This is an application under Art. 226 of the Constitution for the issue of a writ, direction or order in the nature of prohibition forbidding the opposite parties, namely, the State of Rajasthan, and the Inspector General of Police, Rajasthan, from recovering from the applicant the cost of maintenance of additional police force at Nanan, and from taking possession of the applicants jagir for that purpose.

2. The case put forward by the applicant is this:—

He is the jagirdar of village Nanan in Tehsil Bilara. In 1948, the Dhani of one Prabudayal was ransacked by dacoits. Thereafter punitive police force was quartered in village Nanan under the orders of the Chief Secretary to the Administrator Jodhpur, dated 28th April, 1949, on the ground that Nanan was in a disturbed state. This police force remained in the village from May, 1949 to January, 1950, and the cost of maintaining this additional force for nine months came to Rs. 4,761/14/-. The Tehsildar of Bilara was ordered to recover this amount from the applicant who, however, refused to comply with this illegal order. Thereupon, the Government of Rajasthan passed orders in September,1951, that half share of the petitio

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