Mudholkar, J—These eleven Miscellaneous Petitions have been filed on behalf of different persons who have variously described themselves as Zamindars or Malguzars or Proprietors of ''alienated villages'', each claiming to be the proprietor of the soil in the villages or group of villages set out in their applications. They pray for issue of writs of mandamus, or certiorari or of prohibition against the State of Madhya Pradesh prohibiting them from proceeding under the Madhya Pradesh Abolition of Proprietary Rights (Estates, Mahals, Alienated Lands) Act, 1950, being Act I of 1951. It is stated that on the 3rd of September 1946 the Central Provinces and Berar Legislative Assembly passed a resolution for the elimination of intermediaries between the State and the peasant and that in pursuance of that resolution a bill was passed by the State Legislature. It received the assent of the President on the 22nd January 1951 and was published in the ''Madhya Pradesh Gazette'' on the 26th January 1951 as Madhya Pradesh Act I of 1951. In pursuance of section 3 of the said Act, a notification has been issued by the State Government fixing the 14th of March in respect of some of the esta