GURDEV SINGH, J.

1. In this petition under Section 3 of the Contempt of Courts Act Chhotta Singh and others complain of disobedience of the orders of this Court dated 15th December, 1965 and 11th February, 1966 in Civil Writ No. 2955 of 1965, as well as of the order of the Financial Commissioner dated 5th November, 1965 passed in proceedings between the parties under the Pepsu Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act. The matter came up before my learned brother Bedi J., who being of the opinion that the question whether the Financial Commissioner is a Court subordinate to the High Court, the contempt of which can be punished by this Court was not free from difficulty, referred the case to a larger Bench by his order dated 14th of November, 1966.

2. The petitioners, Chhotta Singh and others, were settled under the orders of the prescribed authority (Naib-Tahsildar) dated 21st December, 1962 on some of the lands that had been declared surplus in the hands of Gurdial Singh. respondent No. 3, a big landowner in village Bugran, District Bhatinda. An appeal against this allotment of land to the petitioners was preferred by Gurcharan Singh, respondent No. 5. who claimed to be a tenant