property from which they had been ejected under the provisions of the Punjab Security of Land Tenures Act of 1953 (for short, '1953 Act'). The petitioner claimed that he was a category-BB tenant, having been in possession of property from the year 1953. Even before allotment, Ram Chand had died and therefore the case was considered only in the light of claim by Arjan Dass. The Financial Commissioner held that the petitioner was only a tenant in categoryCC and since the allottee belonged to higher category-C, the allotment made already to him was required to be confirmed. It is this order which is in challenge before this Court in the writ petition. 2. The learned counsel for the petitioner would contend that apart from the fact that he had been a tenant of this property, the petitioner had been a tenant of 59 bighas-3 biswas of land belonging to one Parma Nand, Ram Chand, Kaniya Lal and Narain Dass and by an application filed under Section 9-A of the 1953 Act, he was ordered to be evicted. The order copy has also been filed along with the writ petition to prove his status as a category C tenant, if not to be treated as category BB tenant. His contention, therefore, was that an allotment could not have been made without considering the petitioner's own status as a category-C tenant which was at par with the allottee. Although the petitioner claimed that he was a category BB tenant, the learned counsel for the State points out that even in the application form filed under US2 (Annexure-R1), the petitioner had only contended that he had been cultivating the land of Dayal
