Judgement TULZAPURKAR, J.:- This appeal has been preferred by National Textile Corporation (a Company incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956 which has been allowed to be substituted in place of the original appellant who was The Ahmedabad Jupiter Spg. Wvg. And Mfg. Co. Ltd.) against the judgment and order passed by Vimadalal J. on 11th August, 1969 whereby the learned Judge dismissed the writ petition filed by the Original appellant being Misc. Petition No. 320 of 1964 with costs. 2. The few facts giving rise to the filing of Misc. Petition No. 320 of 1964 may be stated. The original appellant-petitioner. The Ahmedabad Jupiter Spg. Wvg. And Mfg. Co. Ltd., owned the land in question as a part of the Mill premises situate at Parel, Bombay. By a Notification dated 19-6-1961 issued under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act the State Government notified that the said land admeasuring 5900 sq. vds. Was likely to be needed for public purpose viz. for a Municipal School and Play Ground and it was notified that if the Government was satisfied that the said land was needed for the aforesaid purpose, the final notification to that effect under Section 6 of the Land Acquisition Act would be published in due course and the Deputy Collector of Bombay was appointed as, an Officer to perform the functions of the Collector under Section 5-A of the said Act in respect of the said land. Objections were invited and the original petitioner-Company lodged its objections and after a hearing was given a report was submitted by the Deputy Collector to the State Government and on a consideration of the report and after being satisfied that the said land was needed to be acquired at the public expense of the Bombay Municipal Corporation for the public purpose mentioned above the State Government issued a notification under Section 6 of the Act on 29-5-1964 and the Special Land Acquisition Officer (7). Bombay was appointed under Section 3 © of the said Act to perform the functions of a Collector for all proceedings thereafter to be taken in respect of the said land. The schedule to the notification gave particulars of the land in respect whereof the same was issued and also stated the public purpose for which the said land was being acquired viz. for 'Municipal School and Play Ground'. The schedule to the notification gave particulars of the land in respect whereof the same was issued and also stated the public purpose for which the said land was being acquired viz. for 'Municipal School and Play Ground'. Notice under S.9 of the Act was issued on 27-6-1964 and served upon the original petitioner-company. On 22-8-1964 the original petitioner-Company filed Misc. Petition No. 320 of 1964 challenging the said acquisition. The acquisition was challenged on two grounds: (1) that the procedure of direct negotiation under Section 90 of the Bombay Municipal Corporation Act had not been followed in the case and therefore the action taken under Section 91 of that Act was bad; and (2) that the impugned notification had been issued mala fide inasmuch as the area which was sought to be acquired was far in excess and beyond the reasonable requirements of a Municipal School and play ground. The learned Judge negatived both the grounds on which the acquisition was sought to be challenged before him. Relying upon an unreported judgment delivered on 11-8-1967 in Misc. Petition No. 463 of 1964 as well as another unreported judgment delivered in Misc. Petition No. 132 of 1965 he took the view that negotiations for acquisition of land by private agreement were not a condition precedent to the exercise of powers conferred upon the State Government under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act. It may be stated that this view taken by the learned single Judges in these aforesaid two Misc. Petitions has been upheld by the Supreme Court in the case of Ambalal Purshottam v. Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation reported in AIR 1968 SC 1223 . It may be stated that this view taken by the learned single Judges in these aforesaid two Misc. Petitions has been upheld by the Supreme Court in the case of Ambalal Purshottam v. Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation reported in AIR 1968 SC 1223 . On the other question as to whether the area which was sought to be acquired was far in excess of reasonable needs of a Municipal School and play ground, he took the view again relying upon the two Supreme Court's judgments - one in the case of Smt. Somawanti v. State of Punjab reported in AIR 1963 SC 151 and the other in the case of Raja Anand Brahma Shah v. Sate of Uttar Pradesh reported in AIR 1967 SC 1081 - that unless the petitioner-Company was in a position to point out that this acquisition, which it said was far in excess of the real need, was being done under colourable exercise of power or was mala fide, the petitioner-Company could not succeed in their challenge to the impugned notification. He further took the view that the question whether the land that was sought to be re