D.K.Mahajan, J.

1. This is an appeal under Clause 10 of the Letters Patent and is directed against the order of Bishan Narain J. passed in a petition under Article 226 of the Constitution praying that the estate be released from the Court of Wards on the ground that Section5 (2) (a) of the Pepsu Court of Wards Act (No. 1 of 2008 Bk.) is ultra vires the Constitution of India. This appeal came up before me while sitting with the Chief Justice on the 13th of September, 1960, and it was ordered that it should be heard by a lager Bench. Consequently, this matter has been placed before the-Full Bench.

2. The petitioner-appellant is one Smt. Pritam Kaur widow of Mukand Singh, who was murdered on the nth of April, 1928. Mukand Singh at the time of his death was possessed of considerable landed and house property. He left landed and other property in various villages in the erstwhile Jind State. He was survived on his death by two widows, that is, Smt. Pritara Kaur and Smt. Pavittar Kaur and three daughters from Smt. Pavittar Kaur. At the instance of Smt. Pavittar Kaur the Judicial and Home Committee of the erstwhile State of Jind proposed on the ist of June, 1928, that the estate o