R.F.A. No.5107 of 2010 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH R.F.A. No.5107 of 2010 Date of Decision:26.07.2011 Manjit Singh Boparai ......Appellant Versus State of Haryana and another .....Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MEHINDER SINGH SULLAR. Present: Mr.Salim Malik, Advocate, for the appellant. Mr.Anjum Ahmed, Additional Advocate General, Haryana, for the respondents. **** M EHINDER S INGH S ULLAR , J.(oral) As is evident from the record that the appellant has preferred the present regular first appeal against the impugned award dated 12.01.2008 passed by the Additional District Judge, Faridabad. Learned counsel for the parties are ad idem that the controversy involved in the present appeal is squarely covered and is liable to be disposed of in the same terms of the judgment dated 01.09.2009, in a bunch of appeals, decided along with main R.F.A. No.4438 of 2008 titled as State of Haryana and another Versus Sailak Ram and others, passed by a Coordinate Bench of this Court (Ajay Kumar Mittal, J.), the operative part of which is, as under:- “For the reasons aforesaid, the appeals preferred by the State of Haryana are dismissed whereas the appeals preferred by the landowners are partly accepted, thereby modifying the award of the Reference Court, dated 12.1.2008, to the extent that the landowners shall be entitled to compensation in respect of their respective acquired land, at the rate of `280/- per square yard along with all R.F.A. No.5107 of 2010 2 statutory benefits as per provisions so the Act, with costs.” In this view of the matter and after hearing the learned counsel for the parties, going through the record with their valuable assistance and after deep consideration of the entire matter, the instant appeal is hereby disposed of in the same terms of the judgment dated 01.09.2009 of this Court in Sailak Ram and others' case(supra). July 26, 2011 (MEHINDER SINGH SULLAR) seema JUDGE R.F.A. No.5107 of 2010 3 C.M.No.12763-CI of 2010 in R.F.A. No.5107 of 2010 Present: Mr.Salim Malik, Advocate, for the appellant. Mr.Anjum Ahmed, Additional Advocate General, Haryana, for the respondents. **** This is an application under Section 5 of the Limitation Act for condonation of 596 days' delay in filing the appeal. Reply to the application neither filed, nor sought to be filed by the respondent-State. What is not disputed here is that the controversy involved in the instant appeal is squarely covered and is liable to be disposed of in the same terms of the judgment dated 01.09.2009, in a bunch of appeals, decided along with main R.F.A. No.4438 of 2008 titled as State of Haryana and another Versus Sailak Ram and others. After hearing the learned counsel for the parties, going through the contents of the application/record, which is supported by an affidavit of Manjit Singh Boparai son of Ishwar Singh, the delay of 596 days in filing the appeal, is hereby condoned under the present set of circumstances, in view of the law laid down by this Court in C.M.No.12382-C of 2009 in RSA No.3383 of 2009, decided on 15.07.2010. Civil Misc. application stands disposed of accordingly. July 26, 2011 (MEHINDER SINGH SULLAR) seema JUDGE