RFA No. 1336 of 1996 (1) IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH RFA No. 1336 of 1996 (O&M) Date of decision : 14.12.2011 The State of Haryana ...Appellant vs Bimla Rani and others ...Respondents Coram : Hon'ble Mr. Justice Rajesh Bindal Present: Mr. Ashish Gupta, Assistant Advocate General, Haryana. Mr. Pritam Saini, Advocate, for the landowners in RFA No. 1993 of 1999. Mr. Aseem Aggrwal, Advocate, for the landowners in RFA Nos. 580 to 582 and 672 of 1997. Rajesh Bindal, J. This order shall dispose of the following appeals:- RFA Nos. 1336 and 2499 of 1996, RFA Nos. 151 to 156, 231, 580 to 582, 672, 2069 to 2071 of 1997, RFA No. 1993 of 1999 and RFA No. 2727 of 2002 as common questions of law and facts are involved in these appeals. By filing appeals, the State of Haryana is seeking reduction of compensation awarded by the learned court below to the landowners for the acquired land whereas by filing appeal, the landowners are seeking further enhancement of compensation. The bunch of appeals pertains to the valuation of land acquired for the development work and utilisation thereof as residential and commercial purposes for carving out Sector-4, Kurukshetra for which notification under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short 'the Act') was issued by the State of Haryana on 21.4.1992. The land is RFA No. 1336 of 1996 (2) situated within the revenue estate of village Devidass Pura, Hadbast No. 361, village Ratgal, Hadbast No. 376, village Umri, Hadbast No. 370, and village Palwal, Hadbast No. 373, Tehsil Thanesar, District Kurukshetra. Notification under Section 6 of the Act was issued on 9.3.1993. The Land Acquisition Collector (for short 'the Collector') assessed the market value of the acquired land at the following rates:- Name of the village Chahi Barani Gair mumkin Ratgal ` 2,50,000/- ` 1,50,000/- ` 2,00,000/- Devidass Pura ` 2,00,000/- ` 1,25,000/- ` 1,50,000/- Umri ` 1,10,000/- ` 80,000/- ` 85,000/- Palwal ` 1,00,000/- ` 70,000/- ` 84,000/- The Collector, however, in respect of certain khasra numbers in the revenue estate of village Devidass Pura, awarded compensation @ ` 50,000/- per acre and ` 70,000/- per acre. The land owners being dissatisfied with the award of the Collector filed objections which were referred to the learned Court below. On reference under Section 18 of the Act, the learned Court below assessed the compensation of the acquired land @ ` 5,00,000/- per acre. Aggrieved against the award of the learned court below, both the parties are in appeal before this court. Learned counsel for the landowners fairly submitted that the claim made by the parties in the present set of appeals is squarely covered by judgment of this court in RFA No. 768 of 1996 Chuhar Singh (deceased) through LRs vs The State of Haryana and another decided on 20.5.2011. Special Leave to Appeal (Civil) 33065-33070 of 2011 filed by some of the landowners against the aforesaid judgment was dismissed by Hon'ble the Supreme Court on 7.12.2011. For the detailed reasons recorded in Chuhar Singh's case (supra), the appeals are disposed on in the same terms. 14.12.2011 (Rajesh Bindal) vs. Judge