I.D.DUA
Prithi Singh – Appellant
Versus
Punjab Government – Respondent
1. This writ petition has bee filed on the following allegations. The petitioner, Sardar Prithi singh, claims to be a displaced person from West Pakistan and has been allotted about 22 standard acres of agricultural land at village Behram Sarishta in lieu of the land abandoned by him in Pakistan. Against the security of the land allotted to him the State Government is said to have granted to him loans between the years 1950 and 1956 and after payment of some of those loans, according to him, the following amounts are outstanding against him:the petitioner is then stated to have applied through his mukhtar under S.10 of the Displaced persons (Compensation and Rehabilitation) Act, 1954, on 23rd of July 1958 for conferring proprietary rights on the petitioner but the Managing Officer, Jullundur, refused to consider this prayer till the petitioner paid back the above loans. The petitioner submits that in 1955, 1956, 1957 and 1958 on account of abnormal rains in Jullundur district his kharif crops were damaged and destroyed, and rabi crops adversely affected, with the result that the Government had to remit even the land revenue of the entire area. The petition then goes on that
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