IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.3623 of 2011 Date of decision: 01.03.2011 Improvement Trust, Faridkot …..Petitioner versus Land Acquisition Tribunal, Faridkot and another ……Respondents CORAM: Hon’ble Mr.Justice Jasbir Singh Hon’ble Mr.Justice Rakesh Kumar Garg Present: Mr.Praveen Chander Goyal, Advocate for the petitioner Jasbir Singh, J. (Oral) This writ petition has been filed with a prayer to quash an award dated 8.9.2010, passed by the Land Acquisition Tribunal, constituted under the provisions of the Punjab Town Improvement Act, 1922, awarding an amount of Rs.3,45,000/- per acre along with statutory benefits to the land owners for compulsory acquisition of their land. We have perused the contents of the award and are satisfied that there is no ground to reduce the compensation awarded by the Tribunal. While granting compensation, the Tribunal has looked into the potentiality of the land under acquisition to develop it for a commercial and residential purpose. Award passed, with regard to the similarly situated land in the near vicinity of land under acquisition was also noticed. Various sale instances produced by the claimants were also looked into and thereafter the compensation was granted. The sale instances brought on record by the claimants clearly indicate that the compensation awarded is Civil Writ Petition No.3623 of 2011 just and proper. As such, we feel that the compensation granted is perfectly justified and needs no interference. Dismissed. (Jasbir Singh) Judge 01.03.2011 (Rakesh Kumar Garg) gk Judge 2