Rajasthan Court June 1952 Judgments

Devi Singh Vs. State of Rajasthan

Court: Rajasthan

Reported in: AIR1952Raj171

ORDERSharma, J. 1. These are two applications, one by Shri Devi Singh of Mandawa and the other by Shri Gordhan Singh of village Chirana under Article 226 of the Constitution of India. It has been prayed that an appropriate writ, direction or order be issued or passed directing the State of Rajasthan to produce the person of the two-petitioners before this Court, and that the petitioners be set at liberty. Rules nisi were issued in both the cases--in the case of Devi Singh (hereinafter to be called the first petitioner) on the 2nd of June 1952, and in the case of Gordhan Singh (hereinafter to be called the second petitioner) on the 4th of June 1952. Both the cases are substantially similar, and therefore I consider it convenient to dispose them of by this single judgment. 2. The case of the first petitioner is that he is the only son and would-be successor of Shri Thakur Jaisinghjj of Mandawa, who is a prominent landholder of Sheikhawati Pargana in Jaipur Division. He has been returned ...