SATINDER PAL Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Satinderpal and another have filed this appeal under Clause X of the Letters Patent, against the judgment of a learned Single Judge of this Court dated September 30, 1975, by which their petition C.W.P. No. 1820 of 1966 was dismissed.

(2.) Brief facts of the case may be stated thus :-

(3.) It was contended by Mr. Jagn Nath Kaushal, Senior Advocate, learned counsel for the appellants, that the Central Government had very limited interest in the property under the 'Package Deal', that the said limited interest confined to satisfying an unsatisfied claimant who had abandoned land in Pakistan as those claimants had got a sort of charge over the entire compensation pool for the satisfaction of their claims; that Bhola deceased was not an unsatisfied claimant and that the authorities under the Act had no jurisdiction whatsoever to transfer the land out of the land transferred to the State Government under the 'Package Deal' to a sub-lessee. A similar contention was raised before the learned Single Judge but the same was repelled on the basis of the judgment of a Division Bench of this Court in Bishan Singh and others v. Chief Settlement Commissioner and others, 1973 PunLJ 183. The relevant observations out of that judgment read as under :-