IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. LPA No. 17 of 2009 Date of Decision: November 9, 2009 Raj Pal Singh and others …Appellants Versus State of Haryana and another …Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE M.M. KUMAR HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE JASWANT SINGH Present: Mr. Avnish Mittal, Advocate, for the appellants. Mr. Sanjeev Kaushik, Addl. AG, Haryana, for the respondents. 1. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 2. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? M.M. KUMAR, J. This order shall dispose of a bunch of 92 appeals arising out of judgment dated 3.6.1999 passed by the learned Single Judge, dismissing a bunch of the regular first appeal filed by the claimants in which award dated 6.5.1993 passed by the learned Additional District Judge, Karnal, was chal- lenged. Brief facts of the case are that the State of Haryana acquired 19.02 acres of land in the revenue estate of Karnal for residential and com- mercial purposes in Sector-16, Karnal, to be developed by the Haryana Ur- ban Development Authority (for brevity ‘HUDA’). A notification under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for bevity, ‘the Act’) was is- L.P.A. No. 17 of 2009 sued on 22.2.1984 and declaration under Section 6 of the Act was issued on 19.2.1987. The possession of the land was taken by the Government and the Land Acquisition Collector announced the award granting compensation to the claimants in respect of the acquired land, vide Award No. 4 of 1988-89, dated 16.11.1989. For plain and levelled land (66.86 acres) was compensa- tion granted at the rate of Rs. 2,14,944/- per acre and for the low lying area (25.16 acres) it was at the rate of Rs. 1,68,000/- per acre. Dissatisfied with the compensation awarded by the Land Ac- quisition Collector, the claimant-appellants filed reference petitions under Section 18 of the Act. The learned Additional District Judge, Karnal, vide his award dated 6.5.1993, enhanced the compensation in favour of the claimant-appellants to Rs. 3,67,840/- per acre at the uniform rate irrespec- tive of kind of land or classification. This amount comes to Rs. 76/- per sq. yard. Thereafter, the claimant-appellants and various other land owners pre- ferred Regular First Appeals before this Court. The learned Single Judge dismissed the appeals by maintaining the compensation awarded by the learned Additional District Judge at the rate of Rs. 76/- per sq. yard. We have heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the paper book with their able assistance. It is conceded position that the issue raised in these appeals in no longer res integra. Similar appeals arising out of order dated 3.6.1999 passed by the learned Single Judge, including LPA No. 866 of 2000 (Hari Singh v. State of Haryana and others) have already been allowed by the Letters Patent Bench on 16.9.2008. Learned State counsel has also not seriously disputed that these matters are identical to the Hari Singh’s case (supra). Accordingly, adopting the same precedent and reasoning as given in the case of Hari Singh (supra), we allow these ap- peals in the same terms. It is, therefore, held that the claimant-appellants 2 L.P.A. No. 17 of 2009 are entitled to market value of Rs. 82/- per square yard as compensation for their acquired land. Besides the aforesaid compensation, the claimant-appel- lants shall also be entitled to grant of statutory benefits as per the provisions of the Act. The appeals stand disposed of in the above terms. (M.M. KUMAR) JUDGE (JASWANT SINGH) November 9, 2009 JUDGE Pkapoor 3 2 1.LPA No. 17 of 2009 in RFA No. 2378 of 1993Raj Pal Singh and others v. State of Haryana and another.2.LPA No. 18 of 2009 in RFA No. 2379 of 1993Prithvi Singh v. State of Haryana and another.3.LPA No. 21 of 2009 in RFA No. 2381 of 1993Balwan Singh v. State of Haryana.4.LPA No. 22 of 2009 in RFA No. 2371 of 1993Hukam Chand and others v. State of Haryana and another.5.LPA No. 24 of 2009 in RFA No. 2374 of 1993Balbir Singh and others v. State of Haryana and another.6.LPA No. 25 of 2009 in RFA No. 2380 of 1993Smt. Raj Bala and others v. State of Haryana and another.7.LPA No. 31 of 2009 in RFA No. 2366 of 1993Bhim Sain Lather v. State of Haryana and another.8.LPA No. 32 of 2009 in RFA No. 2370 of 1993Prem Singh and others v. State of Haryana and another.9.LPA No. 101 of 2009 in RFA No. 2382 of 1993Tara Devi and others v. State of Haryana and another. (M.M. KUMAR) JUDGE (JASWANT SINGH) November 9, 2009 JUDGE Pkapoor