In the High Court of Punjab & Haryana at Chandigarh R. F. A. No. 3486 of 1992 (O&M) Date of decision : 15.12.2008 The State of Punjab ..... Appellant vs Mohinder Singh (deceased) through LRs. and others .... Respondents Coram: Hon'ble Mr. Justice Rajesh Bindal Present: Mr. Vivek Chauhan, Assistant Advocate General, Punjab. Rajesh Bindal J. The State has filed this appeal for reduction in the compensation awarded to the landowners for the acquisition of land. Briefly, the facts of the case are that the State of Punjab vide notification dated 4.3.1987 issued under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act 1894 (for short, “the Act”), acquired the land situated within the revenue estate of Village Batta, Tehsil Kharar, District Ropar, for construction of Batta Distributory. The Land Acquisition Collector (for short, “the Collector”) announced his award on 30.7.1987. Dissatisfied with the award of the Collector, the landowners / claimants filed objections. On reference under Section 18 of the Act, the learned court below while relying upon award dated 1.2.1991 of Village Batta (Ex. P-1), enhanced the compensation at Rs. 90,000/- per acre. A perusal of the impugned award shows that the learned court below had relied upon Ex. P-1, an earlier award by the Reference Court pertaining to the acquisition of land by same notification as was under consideration in the present appeal. Learned counsel for the State was not able to furnish any information about the further status of the award Ex. P-1 relied upon by the learned court below. As the learned court below had merely relied upon its earlier award pertaining to the same acquisition and granted the same compensation to the landowners herein, I do not find any reason to discriminate the respondents/landowners in the present appeal. In view of the above, I do not find any merit in the appeal. The same is accordingly dismissed. 15.12.2008 ( Rajesh Bindal) vs. Judge