RFA No. 1949 of 1998 (1) In the High Court of Punjab & Haryana at Chandigarh RFA No. 1949 of 1998 (O&M) Date of decision : 25.3.2011 Lachhu Ram and others ... Appellants vs State of Haryana and others ..... Respondents Coram: Hon'ble Mr. Justice Rajesh Bindal Present: Mr. Anil Kshetarpal, Mr. Ranjit Saini, and Mr. G. S. Dhaliwal, Advocate for Mr. M. L. Sharma, Advocate, for the landowners. Mr. D. D. Gupta, Additional Advocate General, Haryana. Rajesh Bindal J. This order will dispose of appeals bearing RFA Nos. 1949, 2123, 2238, 2239, 2256 to 2258 of 1998, 2470 of 2002, 2178, 2594, 2779, 3258 of 2003, 89, 442 of 2004, and 2415 of 2010, as common questions of laws and facts are involved therein. The landowners have filed appeals seeking enhancement of compensation for the acquired land, whereas the State of Haryana has filed appeals seeking reduction thereof. Briefly, the facts are that the land situated in the revenue estates of villages Garhi Mundo, Gobindpura and Jagadhri was sought to be acquired by the State for use by Haryana Urban Development Authority vide notification dated 5.4.1990 issued under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short, `the Act') for construction of the residential colony. The Land Acquisition Collector (for short, `the Collector') assessed the value of the acquired land at ` 1,16,000/- per acre. To the value so assessed by the Collector, the appellants filed objections which were referred to the learned Additional District Judge, Jagadhri for consideration. The learned Additional District Judge vide judgment dated 11.3.1998 determined the value of the acquired land as on the date of acquisition at ` 4,00,000/- per acre. It is against this award of the learned Court below that both the parties have approached this Court. RFA No. 1949 of 1998 (2) Learned counsel for the landowners submitted that the issue raised in the present set of appeals are squarely covered by the judgment of this court in R.F.A. No. 3954 of 2001 –Nakli Ram and others vs State of Haryana and another, decided on 3.5.2006, whereby the compensation payable to the landowners was further enhanced to ` 4,80,000/- per acre. Learned State counsel did not dispute the aforesaid factual position. Since this court had further enhanced the compensation payable to the landowners for the acquired land, the appeals filed by the State for reduction of compensation do not survive. Accordingly, for the reasons recorded in Nakli Ram's case (supra), the appeals filed by the State are dismissed and that of the landowners are disposed of in terms of the aforesaid judgment. 25.3.2011 (Rajesh Bindal) vs. Judge