RFA No. 897 of 2000 -1- In the High Court of Punjab & Haryana at Chandigarh RFA No. 897 of 2000 (O&M) Date of decision : 23.12.2010 Surinder Mohan Singh ..... Appellant vs Union Territory, Chandigarh .... Respondent Coram: Hon'ble Mr. Justice Rajesh Bindal Present: Mr. Tapan K. Yadav, Advocate for Mr. D. S. Raghu, Advocate, for the landowners. Mr. Sanjiv Ghai, Advocate, for Union of India, Mr. Ajay Kansal, Advocate for Ms. Jai Shree Thakur, Advocate, for Union Territory, Chandigarh. Rajesh Bindal J. This order shall dispose of appeals bearing RFA Nos. 897 of 2000, 2533 to 2535 of 2009, 258 of 2010, arising out of same acquisition. By filing appeals, the landowners are seeking further enhancement of compensation for the acquired land whereas the Union Territory of Chandigarh has filed appeals seeking reduction thereof. Briefly, the facts of the case are that vide notification dated 10.1.1992, issued under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short, `the Act'), the land in question, situated in the revenue estate of villages Manimajra and Daria, Union Territory, Chandigarh was acquired. The same was followed by notification dated 23.6.1992, issued under Section 6 of the Act. The Land Acquisition Collector (for short, `the Collector'), vide award dated 9.11.1992, assessed the market value of chahi land @ ` 2,00,000/- per acre. Dissatisfied with the award of the Collector, the land owners filed objections. On reference under Section 18 of the Act, the learned court below assessed the market value of the acquired land @ ` 4,35,600/- per acre. It is this award which is impugned by both the parties in the present set of appeals. Learned counsel for the landowners submitted that the issues raised in the present set of appeals are squarely covered by judgment of this court in R.F.A. No. 648 of 1998 – Tanuj Krishna Sahgal vs Union Territory, Chandigarh, decided on 5.10.2010 and R. F. A. No. 375 of 2002- Baljit Kaur vs Union Territory, Chandigarh, decided on 15.10.2010, whereby the compensation payable to the landowners for the acquired land was further enhanced to ` 196/- per square yard. RFA No. 897 of 2000 -2- Learned counsels for Union Territory of Chandigarh did not dispute the aforesaid factual position. No other point was raised. Since this court had enhanced the compensation payable to the landowners for the acquired land in Tanuj Krishna Sahgal's, case (supra), the appeals filed by the Union Territory, Chandigarh, do not survive. Accordingly, the appeals filed by Union Territory, Chandigarh are dismissed and that of the landowners are disposed of in the same terms. 23.12.2010 (Rajesh Bindal) vs. Judge