M. C. DESAI, C. J.

( 1 ) THIS petition has been laid before this bench at the instance of our brother Broome who was of the view that the decision of this Court in Bir Pratap Singh v. State of Uttar Pradesh, 1960 All LJ 52 required reconsideration in view of the pronouncements of the Supreme Court in Manna Lal v. Collector of Jhalawar, AIR 1961 SC 828 and Nav Rattanmal v. State of Rajasthan, AIR 1961 sc 1704.

( 2 ) THE petition is for certiorari to quash certain orders of the Additional Collector, Bijnor, and the District Judge Bijnor, and mandamus requiring them and others to refrain from interfering with the possession of the petitioner and his partners over certain land in village Azamullah nagar, or, in the alternative, to restore possession over it to them. It arises in the following circumstances. The land in dispute in the petition, measuring about 343 bighas, is a portion of land measuring about 800 acres in village Azamullah Nagar of Bijnor district in respect of which the proprietors of the village had executed a registered lease for 20 years on 27-3-1950 in favour of two persons, Ravi Khanna and Harbans Singh. The lessees took the petitioner and the pro forma opposite p

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