ORDER:- This writ petition under Article 227 of the Constitution of India has been filed by Devta Chikhreshwar through Shri Daulat Ram, Karta and President of the Temple of the aforesaid deity as a next friend for setting aside the order and judgment of the learned District Judge, dated 24th November, 1967, upholding the judgment and order of the learned Compensation Officer, Mahasu.

2. The petitioner's land vested under tie provisions of S.27 of the Himachal Pradesh Abolition of Big Landed Estates and Land Reforms Act, 1953 (hereinafter referred to as the Act) in the State Government on the passing of the Act. The petitioner alleges that he is a small landowner and he had applied to the Compensation Officer for giving him rehabilitation grant as he had no other land for his maintenance. But this application was opposed on the ground that the applicants viz., Daulat Ram and Mohan Lal were not competent inasmuch as they had no locus standi to file this application on behalf of the Devta. Further that the Rehabilitation Grant Rules were not applicable to the Devta. The learned Compensation Officer dismissed the application on the ground that Daulat Ram and Mohan Lal had no au