( 1 ) THIS appeal is against an order made by V. R. Sen, J. , on the 26th November 1954 dismissing Miscellaneous Petition No. 317 of 1954. By that petition the petitioner Premchand asked the High Court to quash an order dated the 22nd december 1953, passed by the Additional Custodian of Evacuee Property, Madhya pradesh, and confirmed on appeal by the Deputy Custodian of Evacuee Property, jabalpur, on 15th January 1953. It is admitted that the order of the Deputy custodian was taken up in revision by the petitioner before the Custodian-General, new Delhi, and that the revision application failed. The order of the Custodian-General has not been exhibited in these proceedings.

( 2 ) ON the authority of a decision of their Lordships of the Supreme Court in election Commission v. Venkata Rao, 1953 SCR 1144: (AIR 1953 SC 210) (A), affirmed later by their Lordships in Rashid and Son v. Income-tax Investigation commission, AIR 1954 SC 207 (B), the learned single Judge declined to quash the orders of the intermediate tribunals on the ground that the writ of this High Court cannot reach the Custodian-General. The learned single Judge also referred to certain decisions of this High Court, par

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