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The above three cases arose under the States Reorganization Act. In Narottam Kishore Dev Varma & Ors. v. Union of India & Anr. the petitioners who wished to sue the Maharaja of Tripura, the former Ruler of the Princely State of Tripura contended that section 87B of the Code of Civil Procedure which applied the provisions of section 85 and of sub-sections (1) and (3) of section 86 of the Code of Civil Procedure to a Ruler of any former Indian State thereby making the consent of the Central Government a prerequisite for the trial of a suit against such a Ruler, giving certain immunity to him as provided in sub-section (3) of section 86 and extending the provisions of section 85 to the case of such a Ruler was violative of Article 14 and Article 19(1)