Civil court jurisdiction barred in evacuee-property disputes where the Act gives final decision-making power to statutory authorities.

The Administration of Evacuee Property Act, 1950 operates as a self-contained code for evacuee-property matters: the Custodian may decide whether a person is an evacuee and whether property belongs to that person, including questions of title and law. The statutory appeal and revision scheme, read with the finality clause, shows that such matters are intended to be conclusively decided by the authorities. Section 46 bars civil and revenue courts from entertaining or adjudicating any question whether property or any right or interest in property is evacuee property, so a civil suit challenging an evacuee-property declaration and asserting title is not maintainable.

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Issues: Whether the jurisdiction of the civil court was barred under sections 28 and 46 of the Administration of Evacuee Property Act, 1950 in a suit challenging an evacuee-property declaration and asserting title to the property.

Analysis: The Act was held to be a self-contained code for matters relating to evacuee property. Section 7 empowers the Custodian to determine whether a person is an evacuee and whether the property belongs to that person, and that determination may involve questions of fact as well as law, including questions of title. The scheme of appeal and revision under sections 24 and 27, together with the finality clause in section 28, shows that the statutory authorities are intended to conclusively decide such matters. Section 46 expressly bars civil and revenue courts from entertaining or adjudicating upon any question whether any property or any right or interest in property is or is not evacuee property.

Conclusion: The civil court had no jurisdiction, and the suit was not maintainable.

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