IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD WEDNESDAY, THE TWENTYNINETH DAY OF DECEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND TEN HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE G. BHAVANI PRASAD AND HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE K. G. SHANKAR A.S.No.37 of 2002 Between: The Special Deputy Collector, Land Acquisition, H.L.C., Anantapur .. Appellant AND Gajjala Chinna Venkataramudu .. Respondent JUDGMENT: (Per. G. Bhavani Prasad, J) Heard Sri Karanam Ramesh, learned Government Pleader for appeals and none entered appearance for the respondent. The present appeal is directed against the award in O.P.No.58 of 1997 dated 13-10-2000 on the file of the Senior Civil Judge’s Court, Penukonda, which was rendered in pursuance of the common order in O.P.No.54 of 1997 and batch. In A.S.No.2528 of 2001 against the award in O.P.No.54 of 1997 covered by the same common order, a Division Bench of this Court dismissed the appeal without costs by the judgment dated 16-11-2004 due to the trivial and insignificant amounts involved, while cautioning that the judgment shall not operate as a precedent in respect of other lands acquired in the same village. In A.S.Nos.2529 and 2604 of 2001, another Division Bench of this Court decided on 5-1-2007 in the appeals against O.P.No.55 of 1997 and O.P.No.56 of 1997 of the same batch that the interest awarded at 9% should be confined from the date of notification i.e. on 11-1-1990 for a period of one year on the enhanced compensation and solatium and thereafter, at 15% p.a. till realization, apart from all other statutory benefits. The grant of interest anterior to the date of notification was thus, set aside. In the present case also, in consequence of the fixation of the market value by the reference Court having been upheld by two Division Benches of this Court, the same needs no interference, more so, when in the present case also, the value of the appeal is a meagre sum of Rs.5,486/- in respect of the acquired lands as in the first of the judgments referred to above. While it can be clarified that interest on the enhanced compensation and solatium shall be since the date of Section 4 (1) notification only, this appeal also has to be disposed of accordingly. Hence, the appeal is dismissed without costs except to the extent of clarification that the respondent-claimant is entitled to interest on the enhanced compensation and solatium and additional market value from the date of notification only. _____________________ G. BHAVANI PRASAD, J ________________ K. G. SHANKAR, J Date: 29-12-2010 Ksn