Bishan Narain, J.

1. Bhagwat Dayal and four others were owners of a garden known as Mubarak Bagh which is situated in village Malakpur Chhowni Delhi. Its area is 215 Bighas and 5 Biswas. The Chief Commissioner, Delhi acquired this area by issuing a notification under Section 6 of the Land Acquisition Act (hereafter called the Act) on 14th October, 1955. Thereafter proceedings under the Act were taken and the Land Acquisition Collector on 23rd February, 1957 made his award under Section 11 of the Act. The erstwhile owners filed a petition under Article 226 of the Constitution challenging the validity of the Notification issued under Section 6 of the Act! and also challenging the validity of the award. This petition was dismissed by Falshaw J. on 18th December, 1957 and the present appeal under Clause 10 of the Letters Patent lias been filed against this decision.

2. The appellants case is this. They purchased the land now in dispute in 1944-45 for Rs. 2,75,000/- for the purposes of developing it. Since 1950 they have been trying to get the scheme for developing the area sanctioned. For this purpose they engaged the services of an architect who prepared a scheme for developin