R.F.A. No. 4143 of 2010 [1] IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH R.F.A. No. 4143 of 2010 (O&M) Date of decision: 6.12.2011 Dharampal and others .. Appellants. Vs. Haryana State through Collector and others .. Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJESH BINDAL Present: None for the appellants. Mr. Ashish Gupta, Assistant Advocate General, Haryana. ... Rajesh Bindal J. This order will dispose of R.F.A. Nos. 4143 to 4145, 4530, 5407 to 5409 of 2010, as common questions of law and facts are involved. The land owners are in appeal seeking further enhancement of compensation awarded by the learned court below for the acquired land. The facts have been extracted from R.F.A. No. 4143 of 2010. Briefly, the facts of the case are that vide notification dated 17.11.2003, issued under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short, `the Act'), State of Haryana sought to acquire the land situated in the revenue estate of villages Patan and Chuli Kalan, Tehsil Adampur, District Hissar for construction of Hissar Ghaghar Multi Purpose Channel. The same was followed by notification dated 26.4.2004, issued under Section 6 of the Act. The Land Acquisition Collector (for short, `the Collector') awarded compensation @ ` 1,40,000/- per acre for Nehri kind of land and ` 1,00,000/- per acre for Tal (barren) kind of land. Dissatisfied with the award of the Collector, the land owners filed objections. On R.F.A. No. 4143 of 2010 [2] reference under Section 18 of the Act, the learned court below assessed the market value of the acquired land of village Chuli Kalan @ ` 3,00,000/- per acre and of village Patan @ ` 7,00,000/- per acre. Learned counsel for the State fairly conceded that the claim made by the land owners in the present set of appeals is squarely covered by the judgments of this Court in R.F.A. No. 3873 of 2009 –Haryana State and another v. Ram Partap and others, decided on 23.12.2010, whereby for the land acquired pertaining to village Chuli Kalan, the amount of compensation was assessed @ ` 4,00,000/- per acre and for village Patan, the amount was assessed @ ` 7,00,000/- per acre. The land owners were also held entitled to severance @ 20% of the value of acquired land. In view of the above fair stand of learned counsel for the State, the appeals are disposed of in terms of the judgment of this court in Ram Partap's case (supra). ( Rajesh Bindal ) Judge 6.12.2011 mk