as the petitioner has been found in distributing drugs and as per Section 18 (b) of the Drugs and Cosmetic Act and petitioner is liable to be punished for an imprisonment which may extend to 10 years. The petitioner in the petition and appellants in appeals are the rightful owners of the aforementioned survey, numbers, and, therefore, their names were duly inscribed as bhumiswami in the revenue records the Khasra of the said lands of the relevant revenue years. the present Appellant Gajanand Mali, is the land owner of a total land admeasuring hectares situated in village, Neemanwasa, Tehsil and District Ujjain. In the Year 1980-81, the said total land 8 hectares, was brought under the scanner of the Urban Land Ceiling and Regulation. Thereafter on 28/11/1985 the Competent Authority, Urban Land Ceiling, District Ujjain, issued a final statement under Sec 9 of the Act of 1976, declared the land admeasuring 7 hectares as surplus land, and declaring it to vest into State ownership. Thereby, Gajanand Mali , appellant was left with only 1 hectares of land in village Neemanvasa belonging to him as Ceiling-free land. The Ministry of Housing and Environment Development of Madhya Pradesh, by a circular date 30th March 1992 directed the Commissioner of Madhya Pradesh Housing Board & others that, it shall 'not' initiate the proceedings of land acquisition, without obtaining approval from the State Government) In 1992, Gajanand Mali initiated the development of a colony on his ceiling free 1 hectare land, by obtaining all the statutory permissions from the state instrumentalities as required under different provisions of law. For the above purpose, on 07.08.1992, the Town and Country Planning Department has given its assent to the appellant's proposal and sanctioned the map of the proposed residential Row-Housing Colony. Further the SDM Ujjain vide his order dated 40 passed in case no. The then Executive Engineer of the Madhya Pradesh Housing Development Board, filed a complaint against the present appellant Gajanand Mali in the Illegal Colony Cell of Collectorate Ujjain state that the appellant has illegally developed a colony named as "Arjun Nagar" upon the