CWP No. 7941 of 2001 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. CWP No.7941 of 2001 Date of decision 22.2.2010 Dr. Om Parkash and another ... Petitioners Versus State of Punjab and others ... Respondents. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE M.M. KUMAR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JITENDRA CHAUHAN Present: Mr.Ashok Jindal ,Advocate for the petitioners Mr. Suvir Sehgal, Addl. AG Punjab Mr. Ram Lal Gupta Advocate for respondens. 1.To be referred to the Reporter or not ? 2.Whether the judgement should be reported in the Digest ? M.M.KUMAR, J. The petitioners have approached this Court with a prayer for quashing award dated 23.12.1988 (P.6) and award dated 25.7.2000 (P.9) passed by respondent nos. 2 and 4 respectively. The Collector has allowed compensation of the land acquired under Scheme 16.44 Acre Scheme @ Rs. 450/- per square yard to the petitioners besides statutory benefits available under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894. It has remained undisputed that CWP Nos. 2051 and 2052 of 2001 in respect of connected matters were referred to Lok Adalat and were disposed of on 2.8.2004. Accordingly the matters were remanded back to the Land Acquisition Tribunal (Improvement Trust) Bhatinda to decide the case afresh in accordance with the law. In pursuance to the directions, the Land Acquisition Tribunal CWP No. 7941 of 2001 2 (Improvement Trust) has again announced the award on 13.6.2008. The market value of the acquired land has been determined at Rs. 151 per sq. yard for the entire acquired land without any classification alongwith the mandatory benefits. A copy of the award dated 13.6.2008 has been placed on record as A.1. The petitioner has also asserted in C.M. 18767 of 2009 that the Improvement Trust, Bhatinda challenged the award dated 13.6.2008 (A.1) before a Division Bench of this Court in CWP No. 20523 of 2008 which was dismissed by this Court on 8.12.2008 (A.2). Even the S.L.P. No. 9147 of 2009 was dismissed by Hon'ble the Supreme Court on 27.4.2009 (A.3). The prayer made in the application is for disposal of the left out petition as per the award dated 13.6.2008 since it has been upheld by this Court as well as by Hon'ble the Supreme Court. Notice of the application was issued and in reply all the averments made by the applicant- petitioners have been admitted. It is stated that the case of the petitioner- applicants is covered by the order passed by the Land Acquisition Tribunal (Improvement Trust) Bhatinda on 30.6.2008 and judgement of this Court as well as that of Hon'ble the Supreme Court. In view of the above, we dispose of the writ petition by directing the respondents to award the same amount of compensation as has been done vide award dated 13.6.2008 passed by the Land Acquisition Tribunal (Improvement Trust) Bhatinda because the aforesaid order has been upheld by this Court in CWP NO. 20523 of 2008 on 8.12.2008. It is needless to add that the earlier awards dated 23.12.1988, 25.7.2000 and 8.12.2000 (P.6, P.9 and P.12 respectively), which are subject matter of challenge in the writ petition are hereby quashed as has been done in the CWP No. 7941 of 2001 3 earlier petition. The needful shall be done within a period of two months from the date of receipt of copy of this order. (M.M.Kumar) Judge (Jitendra Chauhan) 22.2.2010 Judge okg