The Commissioner, Jalandhar Division, has accordingly held an enquiry and submitted a report on an affidavit sworn by him. A reading of the affidavit filed by the Commissioner shows that all the petitioners are residents of village Mand Sholey although none of them owned any property in the said village except one Santokh Singh s/o Hazara Singh, who was allotted provincial land by the State Government. The affidavit further states that during floods of 1988, the petitioners were evacuated from their village and given shelter in a relief camp established in the barracks of Police Academy, Phillaur. Subsequently, they were provided tents and shifted on the land in dispute as a temporary make shift arrangement. Neither any allotment of land was, however, made by the authorities nor any financial aid given to them for raising any construction over the same. The report also gives the details of the land in occupation of each one of the petitioners and the extent of the construction over the same. The report further states that no one except those hailing from village Mand Sholey is in occupation of land in Khewat No.1, Khatauni No.1 of Revenue Estate of Qilla Phillaur, the disputed area. It is also pointed out that those who did not challenge the eviction order are the poorest among all and had joint walls with those who had obtained the stay order from this Court. The authorities did not, therefore, execute the order of eviction even qua those who did not have the protection of any stay order, lest the stay orders were violated while resorting to removal of the encroachment. The Commissioner states that none of the occupants of the land is a police official. Having answered the queries raised by this Court, the affidavit goes on to state that
