RFA No. 1440 of 1989 1 IN THE PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT AT CHANDIGARH RFA No. 1440 of 1989 (O&M) Date of Decision: 19.12.2011 Ram Sarup ...Appellant Versus State of Haryana and another .....Respondents CORAM: Hon'ble Mr. Justice Rajesh Bindal Present: Mr. C.B Geol, Mr. Nitin Jain and Mr. Sanjeev Gupta, Advocates for the landowner. Mr. Ashok Jindal, Additional Advocate General, Haryana. ..... RAJESH BINDAL, J. The landowner is in appeal seeking enhancement of compensation awarded by the learned court below. Brief facts of the case are that land measuring 6,656 kanals and 19 marlas situated in the revenue estate of village Bohli, Teshil Panipat, District Karnal, was acquired by the State of Haryana for installation of refinery vide notification, issued under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short “the Act”), on 12.09.1983. The same was followed by notification dated 29.3.1985, issued under Section 6 of the Act. The Land Acquisition Collector (for short “the Collector”) vide his award assessed the market value of the acquired land @ ` 20,000/- per acre for Chahi/Nehri kind of land; ` 10,000/- per acre for Barani kind of land and ` 5,000/- per acre for Banjar kind of land. The landowners feeling dissatisfied with the award of the Collector, filed reference under Section 18 of the Act. The learned court below upheld the award of the Collector. Learned counsel for the State very fairly submitted that the present appeal is squarely covered by the judgment of this Court in RFA No. 1647 of 1990, decided on 16.12.2011, titled as Surjit Kaur and others RFA No. 1440 of 1989 2 Vs. State of Haryana and others, whereby the appeals have been disposed of in terms of judgment of this Court in RFA No.2612 of 1991—Shri Balkar Singh and another Vs. State of Haryana and others, decided on 14.11.2003, which has been upheld by Hon’ble the Supreme Court in Civil Appeal No. 2268 of 2010 –Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. Vs. Charanjit Singh and others, decided on 19.10.2011. For the reasons mentioned in Surjit Kaur’s case (supra), the present appeal is disposed of in the same terms. (RAJESH BINDAL) JUDGE 19.12.2011 sharmila