RFA No. 591 of 1995 (1) In the High Court of Punjab & Haryana at Chandigarh RFA No. 591 of 1995 (O&M) Date of decision : 15.10.2010 Kurukshetra Development Board, Kurukshetra ..... Appellant vs The State of Haryana and another ..... Respondents Coram: Hon'ble Mr. Justice Rajesh Bindal Present: Mr. S. C. Sibal, Senior Advocate with Mr. Deepak Sibal, Advocate, for the Kurukshetra Development Board. Mr. Ashish Gupta, Assistant Advocate General, Haryana. None for the landowners. Rajesh Bindal J. This order will dispose of appeals bearing RFA Nos. 591, 823, 869 to 872, 881 of 1995, 1694 to 1702, 1957 to 1965, 2274 to 2277 of 1996 and 273 of 1997, as the same arise out of common acquisition. The land owners are in appeal before this Court against the award of the learned court below passed under Section 18 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short, `the Act') seeking further enhancement of compensation for the acquired land whereas Kurukshetra Development Board, Kurukshetra and State of Haryana areseeking reduction thereof. Briefly, the facts of the case are that the State of Haryana vide notification dated 19.10.1989 issued under Section 4 of the Act, acquired land situated within the revenue estate of village Pehowa, Hadbast No. 41, District Kurukshetra, for land scaping roads, foot-paths, parks, widening of the Tirath and various development acitivities of the Kurukshetra Development Board. The Land Acquisition Collector vide Award No. 2 dated 13.2.1992, assessed the market value of the acquired land @ ` 41,000/- per acre for chahi/nehri, ` 30,000/- per acre for barani, ` 20,000/- per acre for banjar kadim, and ` 15,000/- per acre for gair mumkin kinds of land. Aggrieved against the same, the landowners filed objections under Section 18 of the Act which were referred to the learned Additional District Judge, Kurukshetra, who keeping in view the material placed on record by the parties, vide his award dated 2.12.1994, determined the market value of the acquired land @ ` 82.60 per square yard with regard to the land upto RFA No. 591 of 1995 (2) 20 feet depth on Galadeva Road and ` 20.65 per square yard of the remaining land. It is this award which is impugned in the present set of appeals by both the parties. Learned counsels for the parties submitted that the issues raised in the present set of appeals are squarely covered by the judgment of this court in RFA No. 592 of 1995 - Kurukshetra Development Board vs The State of Haryana and another. For the reasons mentioned in the aforesaid judgment, the present appeals are disposed of in the same terms. 15.10.2010 (Rajesh Bindal) vs. Judge