RFA No. 1721 of 1991 [1] IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH R.F.A. No. 1721 of 1991 (O&M) Date of decision: 22.12.2011 Kilar Singh and others .. Appellants Vs. The State of Haryana and another .. Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJESH BINDAL Present: Mr. Y. P. Malik, Advocate for the appellants. Mr. Ashish Gupta, Assistant Advocate General, Haryana. ... Rajesh Bindal J. This order will dispose of RFA Nos. 1721 to 1723 of 1991 and 706 of 1994, as common questions of law and facts are involved. The land owners are in appeal seeking further enhancement of compensation awarded to them by the learned court below for the acquired land. Briefly, the facts of the case are that vide notification dated 20.11.1988, issued under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short, `the Act'), State of Haryana sought to acquire 20.66 acres of land, situated in village Mehandipur, HB No. 50, Tehsil Bahadurgarh, District Rohtak for construction of Gurgaon Water Supply Channel. The same was followed by notification dated 2.2.1989, issued under Section 6 of the Act. The Land Acquisition Collector (for short, `the Collector'), vide award dated 29.5.1989, assessed compensation @ ` 40,000/- per acre for Nehri and Gair Mumkinj Dahna land and @ ` 25,000/- per acre for Gair Mumkin rasta kind of land. Dissatisfied with the award of the Collector, the land RFA No. 1721 of 1991 [2] owners filed objections. On reference under Section 18 of the Act, the learned court assessed compensation @ ` 65,000/- per acre. Learned counsel for the land owners submitted that while assessing compensation for the acquired land, the court below had relied upon the amount awarded by the Collector pertaining to the land of village Mandothi, which was acquired for the same purpose and was a neighbouring village, just across the channel. In RFA No. 3466 of 1993 – Sardara vs. State of Haryana and another, decided on 7.11.2008, this court had upheld the award of the court below pertaining to the land of village Mandothi awarding compensation @ ` 96,000/- per acre for Nehri; ` 65,000/- per acre for Barani and ` 48,000/- per acre for bhund and gair mumkin kinds of land. The submission is that once the land pertaining to village Mehandipur, the valuation of which is under consideration in the present set of appeals, is also similarly placed, the land owners are entitled to same amount of compensation. Learned counsel for the State did not dispute the fact that revenue estates of village Mehandipur and Mandothi are adjoining to each other and the land is also similarly situated. For village Mandothi, the award of the court below, as is referred to by learned counsel for the land owners, was upheld in Sardara's case (supra). After hearing learned counsel for the parties and considering the submissions made above, the present set of appeals are also allowed in terms of the judgment of this court in Sardara's case (supra), where compensation for the land pertaining to village Mandothi was enhanced. The land owners in the present case shall also be entitled to the enhanced compensation. Accordingly, the appeals are disposed of. ( Rajesh Bindal ) Judge 22.12.2011 mk