R.F.A. No. 3732 of 2011 [1] IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH R.F.A. No. 3732 of 2011 (O&M) Date of decision: 6.12.2011 State of Haryana and others .. Appellants. Vs. Zile Singh and others .. Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJESH BINDAL Present: Mr. Ashish Gupta, Assistant Advocate General, Haryana. None for the respondents. ... Rajesh Bindal J. This order will dispose of R.F.A. Nos. 3732, 3734 to 3765 of 2011, as common questions of law and facts are involved. The State is in appeal impugning the award of the learned court below and seeking reduction in the amount of compensation awarded to the land owners for the acquired land. The facts have been extracted from R.F.A. No. 3732 of 2011. Briefly, the facts of the case are that vide notification dated 17.11.2003, issued under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short, `the Act'), State of Haryana sought to acquire the land situated in village Shahpur, Tehsil and District Hisar for construction of Hisar R.F.A. No. 3732 of 2011 [2] Ghaggar Multi Purpose Channel. The same was followed by notification dated 26.4.2004, issued under Section 6 of the Act. The Land Acquisition Collector (for short, `the Collector') awarded compensation @ ` 1,40,000/- per acre for Nehri kind of land and ` 1,00,000/- per acre for Taal kind of land. However, vide supplementary award, the Collector assessed the market value of the acquired land @ ` 5,00,000/- per acre irrespective of the kind of land. 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 @ ` 6,00,000/- per acre for all kinds of land. Learned counsel for the State submitted that the Collector had initially assessed the value of acquired land @ ` 1,40,000/- per acre for Nehri land and ` 1,00,000/- per acre for Taal kind of land. However, considering the circular issued by the Government of Haryana vide memo dated 28.4.2005 providing for assessment of compensation at the minimum rate of ` 5,00,000/- per acre for acquisition of land in the State irrespective of its location and quality in all cases where the award of the Collector is after 5.3.2005, the Collector had revised the earlier award and passed a supplementary award on 30.4.2007 assessing the compensation @ ` 5,00,000/- per acre. The learned court below has gone wrong in awarding ` 1,00,000/- per acre in addition to the amount of compensation already assessed by the Collector. Heard learned counsel for the State and perused the paper book. As far as award of ` 1,00,000/- in addition to the amount of compensation assessed by the Collector is concerned, in my opinion, the same does not call for any interference for the reason that it is acquisition for the purpose of Hisar-Ghaggar Multi Purpose Channel, which has undisputedly divided the land of the land owners into two parts, which makes it difficult to irrigate or use the divided portions of land to its optimum and also to approach the other portion of the land. The bridges are provided at a distance and the land owners have to take a longer route to reach other part of the land. R.F.A. No. 3732 of 2011 [3] For the reasons recorded above, the appeals are dismissed. ( Rajesh Bindal ) Judge 6.12.2011 mk