HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE B. PRAKASH RAO AND HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE P. DURGA PRASAD L.A.A.S.Nos. 561 and 562 of 2006 Date: 08-02-2011 Between: Rao Raj Kamal ……… Appellant and The Land Acquisition Officer-cum-Special Deputy Collector, APIIC Limited, Visakhapatnam and others ……….. Respondents HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE B. PRAKASH RAO AND HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE P. DURGA PRASAD L.A.A.S.Nos. 561 and 562 of 2006 COMMON ORDER: (Per BPR, J) Heard the learned counsel for the appellant-claimant and Sri P. Roy Reddy, learned counsel appearing for the respondents 1 and 2. These appeals arise out of a reference made under Section 18 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short ‘the Act’), which, in fact, were taken up along with several other connected references by the Court below, and were disposed of by a common judgment. Certain Appeals arising out of the same were already heard together and disposed of by a common judgment dated 31-03-2009 in L.A.A.S.Nos.352 of 2009 and batch, following the earlier judgment of this Court dated 13-08-2002 in A.S.No.616 of 2000, wherein in respect of the similar lands, the market rate as determined by the Court below at Rs.1,40,000/- was further enhanced and fixed at Rs.1,69,400/- per acre. Therefore, following the same, these Appeals are also allowed. The appellant-claimant is entitled to the market rate at Rs.1,69,400/- per acre along with all other statutory benefits as per the amended provisions of the Act. No order as to costs. _________________ B. PRAKASH RAO, J __________________ P. DURGA PRASAD, J Date: 08-02-2011 YCR