1. This order will dispose of two writ petitions under Arts. 226 and 227 of the Constitution - Swaran Singh V/s. Financial Commissioner, Revenue, Punjab and others, C. W. No. 81 of 1975 and Dalip Singh V/s. Financial Commissioner, Revenue, Punjab and others, C. W. 113 of 1975 for quashing the impugned orders (Annexure P. 4 in each petition), dated 21.11.1974 by which the revision petition filed by each of the petitioners was dismissed by the Financial Commissioner, Revenue, Punjab ordering the ejectment of the petitioners from the land in dispute.

2. Some land of Bal Singh respondent No. 5 (hereinafter to be called the Landlord) was declared as surplus, being in excess of the permissible limit, under the provisions of the Punjab Security of Land Tenures Act, 1953 (hereinafter to be called the Punjab Act). The petitioners in both these writ petitions were resettled on a part of the land so declared surplus under the Punjab Act and the rules framed thereunder. According to the provisions of the Punjab Act, the landlord continued to be the owner of the land which had been declared surplus and thus the petitioners after resettlement became his tenants. As the landlord refused t