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8. The learned Counsel for the respondent also contends that even if Section 144 of the Code cannot be invoked in this case, he is entitled to invoke the inherent power of the Court for correcting its own error and in support of that proposition he referred to a decision of the Calcutta High Court in A. Mullick v. Samsher Ali (1962) 66 C.W.N. 1068. In that case there was an order for ejectment by the trial authority under the West Bengal Land Reforms Act, 1955 and the appellate authority reversed it and sent the matter back to the trial authority for rehearing. But in the meantime, the owner got possession of the property in execution of the order of ejectment. The order in ejectment having been set aside, the opposite party claimed restitution and the question was to which authority should the opposite party apply for such restitution, and the Court held that the executing authority had the power to direct restitution. The learned Judge had observed: