under Section 42 of the East Punjab Holdings (Consolidation and Prevention of Fragmentation) Act, 1948 in a petition filed by the Kabal Singh s/o Bhagat Singh against Kewal Singh s/o Hari Singh and Niranjan Singh s/o Amar Singh. The petitioner Teja Singh s/o Dalip Singh was not impleaded as party to those proceedings. That petition was decided by the Additional Director observing that as per the report dated 21.04.1982 of the Assistant Consolidation Officer, there was a bulk of land reserved for the landless residents during the consolidation proceedings but the same was not allotted to such eligible persons and rather its possession was taken over by residents irrespective of their entitlement. The Consolidation Officer, Hoshiarpur was accordingly directed to scrutinize the record and allot the land to eligible landless residents. (3) The petitioner’s case is that his father was already allotted certain area out of khasra No.50/5 being a non-proprietor, i.e., landless resident of village for manure pits along with 5 marla land within abadi deh and that he has been in physical and continuous possession of the said land since it was allotted in the year 1958-59. The Consolidation Officer vide his order dated 25.09.1989 (Annexure P3) determined the claim of landless persons and in that process affected the area of the petitioner’s land which was said to have been allotted to his father in the year 1958-59. The petitioner thereafter filed an appeal against the above-stated order but the Additional Director vide
