RFA No. 1545 of 1998 [1] IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH RFA No. 1545 of 1998 Date of Decision: 22.10.2009 State of Haryana ......Appellant Versus Randhir Singh .......Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT GUPTA. 1. Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? Present: Shri Lokesh Sinhal, Additional AG, Haryana, for the appellant. Shri Anil Kshetarpal, Advocate, for the respondent. HEMANT GUPTA, J. (Oral). This order shall dispose of a bunch of the following six Regular First Appeals, arising out of Award rendered by the Reference Court on 12.2.1998:- Sr. No. Appeal No. Names of the Parties 1 RFA No. 1545 of 1998 State of Haryana vs. Randhir Singh 2 RFA No. 1546 of 1998 State of Haryana and another v. Kehar Singh 3 RFA No. 1547 of 1998 State of Haryana and another vs. Smt. Chint Kaur 4 RFA No. 1548 of 1998 State of Haryana and another vs. Ram Lubhaya 5 RFA No. 1549 of 1998 State of Haryana and another vs. Shri Puran Chand 6 RFA No. 1550 of 1998 State of Haryana vs. Prem Kumar and another RFA No. 1545 of 1998 [2] Vide notification dated 24.3.1992 under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 [ for short `the Act'], land measuring 56.08 acres of land was acquired for the public purpose, namely, development of commercial area for Sector 2, (Part-II), Kurushetra. The Land Acquisition Collector, vide its Award dated 22.3.1995 assessed the market value of the acquired land @ Rs. 4,98,172.80 per acre for Chahi Land. Separate compensation was awarded in respect of superstructures/tubewell, found existing on the land acquired as also for the trees. Dissatisfied with the Award rendered by the Collector, the land owners sought references under Section 18 of the Act. The learned Reference Court, vide its Award dated 12.2.1998, awarded compensation @ Rs.9,50,000/- per acre and also granted statutory benefits under Sections 23(1-A), 23(2) and 28(2) of the Act. Aggrieved, many land owners as also the State filed Regular First Appeals before this Court. Such 62 Regular First Appeals came up for final hearing before this Court on 23.8.2009. This Court, by passing the main order in RFA No. 2515 of 1998 [ State of Haryana and another v. Badan Singh ], has dismissed all the aforesaid appeals, while maintaining the Award rendered by the Reference Court. Counsel for the parties concede that the present set of six appeals, is also covered by the judgment rendered by this Court in RFA No. 2515 of 1998 (supra). RFA No. 1545 of 1998 [3] For the reasons recorded in order dated 23.12.2008 passed RFA No. 2515 of 1998 (supra), these appeals are also dismissed. [HEMANT GUPTA ] JUDGE 22-10-2009 ds