The litigation culminating in the present appeal (by certificate under Article 133(1)(b) of the Constitution) which is directed against the judgment and order dated September 25, 1967, of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in C.W.N. 1630 of 1962 setting aside the allotment dated May 23, 1960 made by Naib Tehsildar cum Managing Officer, Fatehabad, District Hissar in favour of Madan Mohan and others, and orders dated April 18, 1962 and July 21, 1962 of the Assistant Settlement Commissioner and Chief Settlement Commissioner respectively on the finding that "no part of the holding which formed part of the land allotted to respondent No. 14, Mehta Lal Chand, (hereinafter referred to as 'the respondent ') could, during the subsistence of such allotment and without its cancellation, be allotted to any one else" has had a very chequered career extending over well nigh two decades.