RFA No. 1712 of 1987 (1) IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH RFA No. 1712 of 1987 (O&M) Date of decision : 7.12.2011 Hirde Ram and others ...Appellants vs The State of Haryana ...Respondent Coram : Hon'ble Mr. Justice Rajesh Bindal Present: Ms. Simran Sadana, Advocate for Mr. Ram Chander, Advocate, for the landowners in RFA Nos. 1712 and 1713 of 1987. Mr. C. B. Goel, Advocate for the landowner in RFA No. 104 of 1989. Mr. J. L. Malhotra, Advocate for the landowner in RFA No. 620 of 1990. Mr. Ashish Gupta, Assistant Advocate General, Haryana. Rajesh Bindal, J. This order shall dispose of appeals bearing RFA Nos. 1712, 1713 of 1987, 104 of 1989 and 620 of 1990, filed by the landowners, seeking enhancement of compensation for the acquired land, as common questions of law and facts are involved in these appeals. Briefly the facts are that vide notification dated 17.10.1978 issued under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short, 'the Act') the State of Haryana sought to acquire land in the revenue estate of village Karnal, District Karnal for development and utilisation thereof as Transport Nagar (Sector-4 at Karnal). The Land Acquisition Collector (for short, 'the Collector') vide award dated 2.6.1982 assessed the market value of the acquired land @ ` 30,000/- per acre for chahi/nehri, ` 28,000/- per acre for barani land, ` 18,000/- per acre for banjar qadim and ` 10,000/- per acre for gair mumkin kinds of land. Dissatisfied with the award of the Collector, the landowners filed objections. On reference under Section 18 of the Act, the learned court below assessed the RFA No. 1712 of 1987 (2) compensation for the acquired land @ ` 30/- per square yard. Aggrieved against the award of learned Court below, the landowners have filed appeals before this Court. Learned counsels for the appellants submitted that the issues raised in the present set of appeals are squarely covered by judgment of this court in RFA No. 1646 of 1986- Parshotam Dass and others vs State of Haryana and another decided on 7.11.1989, whereby the compensation payable to the landowners was further enhanced to ` 32/- per square yard. Learned State counsel did not dispute the aforesaid factual position. For the reasons recorded in Parshotam Dass's case (supra), the appeals are disposed of in the same terms. 7.12.2011 (Rajesh Bindal) vs. Judge