JAIN, J.—This writ petition comes up today for the decision of two preliminary points raised by the respondents;—

(1) That it is a joint petition by 8 petitioners and is not maintainable in view of Rule 375 of the Rajasthan High Court Rules which was inserted on 9-10-1964 and in view of the decision of the Division Bench of this Court in Chandmal Naurat Mal vs. State of Rajasthan (1);

(2) The petitioner has concealed facts and the petitioner having not come with clean hands, the petition should be thrown out.

2. In village Dulmans, Tehsil Suratgarh, District Sri Ganganagar there is a temple of Thakurj which had a grant of Muafi lands in 6 PBS, Square Nos. 44 & 45 measuring 15 Bighas and 17 Biswas. These lands were in possession of one deceased Bhinya Ram, as a Pujari. The petitioner No. 1 Sheo Karan petitioners Nos. 4, 5, 6 and 7 are his legal representatives Beside this land, Bhinya Ram also had there 7 Bighas of Lagani land. After the resumption of Muafi land w.e.f. 1-1-59, though the deign was the Muafi holder, yet Bhinya Ram got an order in his favour from the Collector, Sriganganagar on 13-10-1959 that the land in question was his personal property under sec. 23(2) of the Land Re

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