Ranawat J,.—This is an application by Manohar Lal Vaishya of Pahari, District Bharatpur, against the Custodian Rajasthan, Naib-Deputy Custodian, Bharatpur, and Tehsildar, Pahari, under Art. 226 of the Constitution of India.

2. The facts alleged by the petitioner are that he purchased 46 maunds and 8 seers of sarson from one Sheo Singh Meo on the 14th day of the dark half of the month of Asarh in Samwat year 2004. and paid Rs. 800/- to him on the same day. Rs. 5 were paid at the time of settling the transaction, while the balance, it is said, was paid two or three days later. Sheo Singh left India, and went to Pakistan. The then Custodian of Evacuee Property, Bharatpur, by his order dated 1st March, 1949, acting on a report of the Naib-Tehsildar, Pahari, ordered the petitioner to deposit with him Rs. 831/9/- being the price of the aforesaid sarson, which had been purchased by the petitioner from Sheo Singh, who was an evacuee, without allowing any opportunity to the petitioner of being heard. The petitioner came to know about this order when a demand for the payment was made from him by the Collector as arrears of land revenue. After the petitioner came to know about the order, he mo

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