417 of the Code of Criminal Procedure with a plain copy of the judgment appealed against and put in a certified copy of it after the period of limitation prescribed for the appeal had expired and the High Court dismissed the appeal as time-barred, that order was correct and must be affirmed. In these estates, large areas of lands were granted presumably by the Taluqdars to cadets, widows of the family, and relations for maintenance, and to village servants and others, either in reward for past services or as remuneration for services to be performed.

161 was maintained but the sentence under s. In the result the conviction of the appellant was confirmed, the sentence passed against him under s. It is sufficient to state here that by the time the aforesaid Act was passed the Taluqdars of certain districts of Gujrat including Ahmedabad had really become mere owners of proprietary estates, who held lands directly from Government,and the Act provided, inter alia, for the revenue administration of their estates.

The holders of these transferred lands paid no revenue either to the Taluqdar or to Government generally. A system of annual leases was then introduced: this remedy, however, proved worse than the disease, and it was sought to improve the'position of the Taluqdars by legislation it is not necessary for our purpose to refer to the details of that legislation till we come to the Gujrat Taluqdars' Act, 1888 (Bombay Act VI of f888), -which was a landmark in the history of Taluqdari tenures.

Under the provisions of the Act, the Settlement Registers were prepared for each village, which served the purpose of the Record of Rights in those estates. The petitioner whose estate was taken over by the Court of Wards questioned the validity of the power conferred on the Court of Wards. Thus presented, the argument no doubt appears to be plausible. 62 shall be effective without renewal for such period not less than three years and not more than five years, as the Regional Transport Authority may specify in the permit.

" Sub-section (2) provides,- " A permit may be renewed on an application made and dis- posed of as if it were an application for a permit. and the result was that the holders of these lands fell into pecuniary embarrassment and became impoverished and needy. We shall have occasion later to refer to some of the provisions of this Act. These grants fell into three categories: (i) those made prior to British rule ; 58 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939, provides,- " A stage carriage permit or a contract carriage permit other than a temporary permit issued under s.

The petitioners urge that where the Legislature thought it necessary to acquire properties of the licensees either on the revocation or the cancellation of the licences it has made express provisions in that behalf; a similar provision would have been made in respect of persons other than licensees to whom sanction is granted under s. , as he then was, observed : 112 of the Ajmer Tenancy and Land Records Act (XLII of 1950) provided that " if a landlord habitually infringes the rights of a tenant under this Act, he shall, notwithstanding anything in section 7 of the Ajmer Government Wards Regulation, 1888 (1 of 1888) be deemed to be a 'landlord who is disqualified to manage his own property' within the meaning of section 6 of the said Regulation and his property shall be liable to be taken under the superintendence of the Court of Wards.

In other words the High Court did not consider the prosecution evidence apart from the presumption since 596 it placed its decision on the presumption and the failure of the defence to rebut it. In deciding this question, however, it is essential to bear in mind the Specialnature of the article, viz. 28 if it was in the contemplation of the Legislature that the properties of such persons may be acquired. " The determination of the question whether a landlord bad habit- ually infringed the rights of his tenants was left to the Court of Wards.

This Court held that the said section was void as being an unreasonable restriction on the rights in property as the restriction made the enjoyment of that right depend upon the mere discretion of the executive. Therefore, the conferment of such a power on the State Government and not upon a subordinate officer is only one of the considerations that may enter into the judicial verdict on the reasonableness of a particular law and the reasonableness of that law falls to be decided only on the cumulative effect of the circumstances under which such power is conferred.

some force in the contention that conditions " in this behalf " in the context should mean conditions which are relevant to or connected with the business of supplying energy. , energy for the supply ofwhich sanction is granted, and to take intoaccount the scheme of the Act in regard to the conditions which are intended to be imposed on the business of its supply. Sub-section (1)(a) of s. Consequently, where a State Government filed an appeal against an order of acquittal under s.