RFA No. 2070 of 2009 (1) IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH RFA No. 2070 of 2009 (O&M) Date of decision : 18.3.2011 State of Haryana and others … Appellants vs Mehtab Singh and another …. Respondents Present : Mr. D. D. Gupta, Additional Advocate General, Haryana. Mr. Amit Shivrain, Advocate, for the landowners. Rajesh Bindal, J. This order will dispose of appeals bearing RFA Nos. 2070 to 2075, 2137, 2138 and 2499 of 2009, as common questions of law and facts are involved therein. By filing appeals, State of Haryana is seeking reduction of compensation awarded to the landowners for the acquired land. Briefly the facts of the case are that the State of Haryana vide notification dated 9.9.1996, published on 8.10.1996 issued under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short, “the Act”), sought to acquire land situated within the revenue estate of village Dariyapur, Tehsil Bahadurgarh, District Jhajjar, for construction of Gurgaon-Bahadurgarh Road. The same was followed by notification under Section 6 of the Act dated 12.12.1996 published on 11.2.1997. The Land Acquisition Collector (for short, 'the Collector’) assessed the market value of the acquired land @ ` 1,10,000/- per acre for chahi, nehri, gair mumkin chaha land and ` 95,000/- per acre for barani, banjar and gair mumkin kinds of land. Dissatisfied with the award of the Collector, the landowners filed objections. On reference under Section 18 of the Act, the learned court below vide impugned award assessed the compensation for the acquired land @ ` 3,02,700/- per acre for chahi, ` 2,22,222/- per acre for nehri and ` 1,75,000/- per acre for barani, barani gair mumkin and gair mumkin kinds of land. It is this award which is impugned by the State in the present set of appeals before this court. RFA No. 2070 of 2009 (2) Learned counsel for the landowners submitted that the issue involved in the present set of appeals is squarely covered by judgment of this court in RFA No. 2113 of 2002- Ram Niwas and others vs State of Haryana and others decided on 10.1.2011, whereby award of the learned court below regarding valuation of acquired land was upheld whereas for the dispute regarding award of compensation –damages for the period the possession of the land was allegedly taken by the State prior to the issuance of notification under Section 4 of the Act, the matter was remitted back to the Collector to be dealt with in terms of the observations made therein. Learned State counsel did not dispute the aforesaid factual position. Since this court had upheld the award of the learned court below, the claim of the State for reduction in the amount of compensation awarded to the landowners for the acquired land does not survive. Accordingly, for the reasons recorded in Ram Niwas's case (supra), the appeals are dismissed. 18.3.2011 (Rajesh Bindal) vs Judge