1. This appeal under the Letters Patent is directed against an order of a learned Judge of this Court, dismissing the appellants writ petition, and upholding the order passed against him by the Estates Officer, evicting him from a public premises.

2. Put briefly, the facts leading to this appeal are as follows:

The petitioner is an A-grade Physician specialist in the department of Health and Family Planning. While posted at SMGS Hospital, Jammu, he was allotted Government Hospital Quarter No . 3, situate at Ajayib Ghar, Jammu, on 10th May, 1973. A post of Professor of Medicine having fallen vacant in the Government Medical College, Jammu, seven candidates were interviewed by the Selection Committee constituted for the purpose, out of whom the appellant was also one. The appellant, according to the respondents, not having been selected for the post was transferred to Government Hospital, Gandhi Nagar, Jammu, and was also called upon to vacate the premises allotted to him which he was not entitled to retain ; the SMGS Hospital being attached to the Government Medical College, Jammu. The petitioner, having failed to vacate the premises, a notice under section 4 of the Publi