IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND TEN PRESENT HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE A.GOPAL REDDY AND HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE G.V.SEETHAPATHY APPEAL SUIT Nos.1650 and 2552 of 1999 Between: Land Acquisition Officer (S.R.S.P.), Huzurabad. … Petitioner And 1. Nainikanti Narsimha reddy and 19 others. … Respondents This Court made the following: HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE A.GOPAL REDDY AND HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE G.V.SEETHAPATHY APPEAL SUIT Nos.1650 and 2552 of 1999 COMMON JUDGMENT: - (Per Hon’ble Sri Justice A.Gopal Reddy) These two appeals by the Land Acquisition Officer, under Section 54 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for brevity, “the Act”), are directed against the common order of the Principal Senior Civil Judge, Warrangal, dated 23.09.1998 passed in O.P.Nos.50 and 52 of 1990, whereby the reference was answered in favour of the claimants fixing the market value for the acquired lands at Rs.22,500/- per acre. The lands of the claimants were acquired through notification under Section 4(1) of the Act, dated 19.01.1987 for the excavation of Kakatiya canal. The Land Acquisition Officer by his award dated 03.08.1990 fixed the market value of the acquired lands at Rs.5,000/- per acre. When the claimants sought for reference of the matter under Section 18 of the Act, the same was referred to civil Court in the above O.Ps, wherein the reference Court fixed the market value at Rs.22,500/- per acre, basing upon Ex.A2 Judgment of this Court, wherein this Court after relying on the judgment passed in a batch of appeals that were disposed of earlier, which pertain to the lands of villages Akinepalli and Pidicilla, fixed the market value at Rs.22,500/- per acre for dry lands and Rs.25,000/- per acre for wet lands. The date of notification for the lands covered in O.P.No.211 of 1988 is dated 03.11.1985 and the date of notification in O.P.No.50 of 1990 is dated 27.02.1988 and the date of notification in O.P.No.52 of 1990 dated 19.01.1987 and that there is a time gap of 2½ years and 1 ½ years respectively, for the notification covered by O.P.No.211 of 1988. In fact, the claimants are entitled to enhancement of the compensation for the time gap between the notification covered by the present O.Ps and the notification covered by O.P.No.211 of 1988, against which A.S.No.595 of 1993 was filed and this Court fixed the market value at Rs.22,500/- per acre on 24.03.1994. Further, we have noticed that the appeal in A.S.No.1650 of 1999 against respondents 2, 3, 5 and 6 was dismissed for default on 18.10.2001. Therefore, the compensation fixed against them, for the lands covered by the same notification, has become final. In view of the same, the present appeals are dismissed. No order as to costs. __________________ A.GOPAL REDDY, J ____________________ G.V.SEETHAPATHY, J 15.03.2010 lmv