RFA No. 1422 of 2006 (1) IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH R. F. A No. 1422 of 2006 (O&M) Date of decision : 26.4.2011 State of Haryana and another ..... Appellants vs Lalit Kumar and others ..... Respondents Coram: Hon'ble Mr. Justice Rajesh Bindal Present: Mr. Adarsh Jain and Mr. Kulbhushan Sharma, Advocates, Mr. Sandeep Goyal, Advocate for Mr. Jagdish Manchanda, Advocate, for the landowners. Mr. D. D. Gupta, Additional Advocate General, Haryana. Rajesh Bindal J. This order shall dispose of following appeals bearing RFA No. 1422 of 2006; RFA Nos. 1575, 2643 of 2009; RFA Nos. 3086, 5305, 5721 of 2010; RFA Nos. 30 and 1800 of 2011; and Cross-objection nos. 104/CI of 2010 in RFA No. 1422 of 2006; as common questions of law and facts are involved in these appeals and cross-objections. By filing the appeals and the cross-objections, the landowners are seeking enhancement of compensation for the acquired land whereas by filing appeals the State of Haryana is seeking reduction thereof. Briefly, the facts of the case are that vide notification dated 3.7.1995 issued under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short, “the Act”), the State of Haryana, sought to acquire land situated within Village Ajronda, Hadbast No. 118, 188, and 121, Villages Taloribanger and Daultabad, Tehsil and District Faridabad, for RFA No. 1422 of 2006 (2) commercial, institutional, recreational and residential purposes in conformity with development plan for Sectors 20-A and 20-B, Faridabad. The Collector vide his award dated 29.6.1998 determined the market value of the acquired land of all the villages @ ` 5,85,000/- per acre. Dissatisfied with the award of the Collector, the landowners filed objections under Section 18 of the Act, which were referred to the learned court. The learned court below determined the market value of the acquired land of all the villages @ ` 400/- per square yard. It is this award which is impugned by both the parties before this court. Learned counsel for the landowners submitted that the issues raised in the present set of appeals as well as in the cross-objections are squarely covered by judgment of this court in RFA No. 2392 of 1997- Mukhtiar Singh and others vs State of Haryana. , decided on 6.10.2010 whereby the compensation for the acquired land in question was further enhanced to ` 795/- per square yard. Learned counsel for the State did not dispute the aforesaid factual position. Since this court had further enhanced the compensation payable to the landowners for the acquired land, the claim of the State for reduction does not survive. Accordingly, for the reasons recorded in Mukhtiar Singh's case (supra), the appeals filed by the State are dismissed and the appeals as well as the cross-objections filed by the landowners are disposed of in terms of aforesaid judgment. 26.4.2011 (Rajesh Bindal) vs. Judge