Wanchoo, C. J.—This is an application by Satya Dev Cheema under Art. 226 of the Constitution for a writ, direction or order prohibiting the Additional Deputy Custodian Bharatpur from proceeding against the applicant in an evacuee property matter.

2. The case of the applicant is that he was given agricultural land measuring 353 Bighas and 4 Biswas in village Kaproli. Tehsil Bharatpur, under the orders of the Ruler of the former State of Bharatpur, on the 25th of December, 1947, on payment of nazrana, and the applicant got possession of the land. In June, 1950, the land was declared evacuee property. The applicant brought that matter to this Court by writ petition No. 66 of 1951, when he failed to gel redress from the Custodian Evacuee Property, Rajasthan. That petition was accepted, and the order declaring the land evacuee property was set aide, and the Assistant Custodian was directed to proceed according to law under the Administration of Evacuee Property Act (No. XXXI) of 1950 (hereinafter called the Act). Thereupon a fresh notice was served on the applicant and four of his tenants under sec. 7 of the Act by the Assistant Custodian Evacuee Property, Bharatpur. This notice was with

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