BAL RAJ TULI, J.

1. Ajit Singh and Smt. Mohinder Kaur are landowners in villages Tungpain and Sultanwind, Tahsil and District Amritsar (hereinafter called the landowners ). They owned 106 standard acres 10 3/4 units of land at the commencement of the Punjab Security of Land Tenures Act, 1953, (hereinafter called the Act ), out of which land measuring 43 standard acres 14 ½ units was Under ah orchard. They sold away 31 standard acres 10 - units of land to different vendees between 1955 and 1958, which sales were ignored by the Collector while determining their surplus area. A part of that land had been sold in favour of Gurbux Singh and Harbans Singh sons of Ch. Hari Singh (hereinafter called the appellants ) on April 24, 1958. On June 16, 1958, the landowners submitted forms A and E to the Collector, Surplus Area, selecting their permissible area. They did not include the land sold in favour of the appellants in their reserved area but showed it as surplus. On March 14, 1961, the Collector, Surplus Area, decided the case by ignoring the alienations made by the landowners and declared 25 standard acres 11 ¼ units of land as surplus. Against that order, the appellants filed a