RFA No. 1421 of 2003 (1) In the High Court of Punjab & Haryana at Chandigarh RFA No. 1421 of 2003 (O&M) Date of decision : 24.2.2011 Manohar Lal ... Appellant vs State of Haryana and others ..... Respondents Coram: Hon'ble Mr. Justice Rajesh Bindal Present: Mr. A. K. Singal, Advocate, for the appellant. Mr. Ashish Gupta, Assistant Advocate General, Haryana. Rajesh Bindal J. The landowners have filed the present appeal seeking further enhancement of compensation for the acquired land. Briefly, the facts of the case are that vide notification dated 18.12.1997, issued under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short, `the Act'), land situated in village Raliawas, Tehsil and District Rewari, was acquired by the State of Haryana for construction of extension of Raliawas Distributory from Km 8.570 to Km 10.310 by the Irrigation Department. The Land Acquisition Collector (for short, `the Collector'), vide award dated 6.1.2000, assessed the market value @ ` 2,00,000/- per acre for Chahi/ Gair Mumkin land; and ` 1,80,000/- per acre for Narmoth kind of land. Dissatisfied with the award of the Collector, the land owners filed objections. On reference under Section 18 of the Act, the learned court below assessed the market value of the acquired land @ ` 6,00,000/- per acre. It is this award which is impugned in the present appeal. Learned counsel for the landowners submitted that the issues raised in the present appeal are squarely covered by judgment of this court in RFA No. 872 of 2003 State of Haryana and others vs Mahesh Kumar, decided on 1.11.2010, whereby the compensation payable to the landowners was further enhanced to ` 6,50,000/- per acre. RFA No. 1421 of 2003 (2) Learned State counsel did not dispute the aforesaid factual position. Accordingly, for the reasons recorded in Mahesh Kumar's case (supra), the appeal is disposed of in the same terms. 24.2.2011 (Rajesh Bindal) vs. Judge