IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH R.F.A. No. 273 of 1988 Date of decision: September 30, 2008 Krishan Kumar and others .. Appellants v. The State of Haryana .. Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJESH BINDAL Present: None for the appellants. Mr. H. S. Hooda, Advocate General, Haryana with Mr. Rajiv Kawatra, Senior Deputy Advocate General, Haryana for the respondent. Rajesh Bindal J. The land owners are in appeal before this Court against the award of the learned Court below for further enhancement of the compensation of the acquired land. Briefly, the facts are that vide notification dated 22.5.1984, issued under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short, `the Act'), State of Haryana acquired 8.208 acres of land situated in Village Kutana, Tehsil and District Rohtak for remodelling of Drain No. 8. The Land Acquisition Collector (for short, `the Collector') determined the market value of land at Rs. 20,000/- per acre for Nehri/chahi land and Rs. 8,000/- per acre for gair mumkin and banjar kadim land. Aggrieved against the same, the appellants filed objections which were referred to the learned Additional District Judge, Rohtak, who keeping in view the material placed on record by the parties, awarded Rs. 40,000/- per acre for chahi/nehri land and Rs. 16,000/- per acre for other qualities of land. Learned Advocate General appearing for the State very fairly submitted that the claim made by the appellants in the present case is squarely covered by a judgment of this Court in R.F.A. No. 1137 of 1987—Balwant Singh etc. v. State of Haryana, decided on 29.11.1988, where on account of acquisition of land for same Drain No. 8 in the adjoining area, this Court assessed the value of the acquired land @ Rs. 48,000/- per acre. For the reasons stated in Balwant Singh's case (supra), the appeal is allowed in the same terms. (Rajesh Bindal) 30.9.2008 Judge mk