Wan Yahya J:

On 27 May 1972, the applicant and 183 others made application for State land in Mersing. Their names were submitted by the District Officer, Mersing to the proper authorities. For over eight years the applicant waited in vain and up till the date of this application no answer came from the appropriate authorities. The applicant then made a search in the land registry and found that seven pieces of State land in that area had already been alienated to the 1st respondent, the Mentri Besar of Johore, and a few other dignitaries, whom the applicant's Counsel conceded before this Court have been unfortunately described as his cronies. The applicant alleges in his affidavit that the alienation process was carried out in the Exco in the presence and with the participation of the 1st respondent and four other Exco members. These gentlemen, it was alleged, approved various parcels of land to themselves as well as dignitaries of no less importance, ranking from a former Exco member to a Deputy Minister and a few Cabinet Ministers. He was understandably aggrieved by this decision, which he felt had not only jeopardized his right as an applicant for the land but also by t