RFA No. 1806 of 1992 -1- In the High Court of Punjab & Haryana at Chandigarh Date of decision : 19.8.2010 1. RFA No. 1806 of 1992 (O&M) Dharam Pal ..... Appellant vs State of Haryana .... Respondent 2. RFA No. 3270 of 1992 (O&M) State of Haryana ..... Appellant vs Dharam Pal .... Respondent Coram: Hon'ble Mr. Justice Rajesh Bindal Present: Mr. J. L. Malhotra, Advocate, for the landowner. Mr. Ashish Gupta, Assistant Advocate General, Haryana. Rajesh Bindal J. This order will dispose of the aforesaid appeals as the same arise out of one award. The landowner has filed appeal seeking enhancement of compensation for the acquired land whereas by filing appeal the State is seeking reduction of compensation. Briefly, the facts of the case are that the State of Haryana vide notification dated 17.11.1982 issued under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short, `the Act'), acquired the land situated in revenue estate of Village Jharsa, District Gurgaon, for the development and utilisation thereof as residential- cum-industrial area for Sectors 15, Gurgaon. The Land Acquisition Collector vide his award dated 21.9.1986 assessed the market value of land @ ` 60,000/- per acre for chahi, ` 50,000/- per acre for magda and ` 40,000/- per acre for abai/ bhud/banjar/ 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 while relying earlier award, Ex. P-2, dated 28.9.1990, determined the market value of the acquired land at ` 68/- per square yard. It is this award which is impugned in the appeals by both the parties. Learned counsel for the parties submitted that the issue involved in the present appeal is squarely covered by the judgment of this court in RFA No. 2 of 1991 Azad Singh vs The State of Haryana and another, decided on 30.9.1997, RFA No. 1806 of 1992 -2- which was followed in RFA No. 1525 of 1992- Chiranji Lal vs The State of Haryana and another, decided on 19.11.2008. A perusal of the aforesaid judgments shows that this court had upheld the award of the learned court below with regard to the acquisition dated 17.11.1982 in Village Jharsa, whereby the market value of the acquired land was assessed @ ` 136/- per square yard for the land falling upto 10 yards deep on both sides of National Highway No.8; ` 102/- per square yard for the land upto the depth of 10 yards from Gurgaon-Jharsa road and ` 68/- per square yard for the remaining land and the landowners were held entitled to interest on the amount of solatium. The acquisition in the present case is also of the same date and also for the same very purpose. In view of the above, the appeal filed by the State is dismissed and that of the landowner is disposed of in terms of aforesaid judgments. 19.8.2010 (Rajesh Bindal) vs. Judge