HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE N.V.RAMANA AND HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE K.S.APPA RAO L.A.A.S.Nos.404 and 407 of 2009 and 585 of 2010 Date: 23-6-2011 L.A.A.S.No.404 of 2009: Between E.Busa Goud … Appellant/Claimant and The Special Deputy Collector cum Land Acquisition Officer, (SRBC) Nandyal … Respondent/Referring Officer L.A.A.S.No.407 of 2009: Between Polaggari China Sanjeeva Reddy … Appellant/Claimant and The Special Deputy Collector cum Land Acquisition Officer, (SRBC) Nandyal … Respondent/Referring Officer L.A.A.S.No.585 of 2010: Between C.Lakshmanna and another … Appellants/Claimants and The Special Deputy Collector cum Land Acquisition Officer, (SRBC) Nandyal … Respondent/Referring Officer HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE N.V.RAMANA AND HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE K.S.APPA RAO L.A.A.S.Nos.404 and 407 of 2009 and 585 of 2010 Common Judgment: (per N.V.Ramana, J.) The issue involved in all these appeals is one and the same that being the reason they are disposed of by a common judgment. 2. (a) L.A.A.S.No.404 of 2009 is filed by the claimant against the order and decree dated 16-6-2004 in L.A.O.P.No.131 of 1995 passed by the Senior Civil Judge, Nandikotkur, Kurnool district confirming Award No.25/93-94 dated 31-3-1994 passed by the respondent herein-Land Acquisition Officer (LAO) in fixing compensation for the acquired land at Rs.31,000/- per acre, seeking to enhance the same; (b) L.A.A.S.No.407 of 2009 is filed by the claimant against the order and decree dated 20-8-2004 in L.A.O.P.No.103 of 1995 passed by the Senior Civil Judge, Nandikotkur, Kurnool district confirming Award No.24/93-94 dated 30-3-1994 passed by the respondent herein-Land Acquisition Officer (LAO) in fixing compensation for the acquired land at Rs.31,000/- per acre, seeking to enhance the same; and (c) L.A.A.S.No.585 of 2010 is filed by the claimants against the order and decree dated 16-6-2004 in L.A.O.P.No.29 of 1996 passed by the Senior Civil Judge, Nandikotkur, Kurnool district confirming Award No.24/93-94 dated 31-3-1994 passed by the respondent herein-Land Acquisition Officer (LAO) in fixing compensation for the acquired land at Rs.31,000/- per acre, seeking to enhance the same; 3. Today when these appeals are taken up for hearing, it is brought to the notice of this Court by the learned counsel appearing for the appellants-claimants that these appeals are connected to L.A.A.S.Nos.33 and 34 of 2006, arising out of the same acquisition wherein the appellants-claimants aggrieved by fixing of market value at the rate of Rs.31,000/- per acre and a Division Bench of this Court by common judgment dated 30-12-2008 allowed the said appeals holding that the appellants are entitled to market rate of Rs.60,000/- per acre, which fact was not disputed by the learned Government Pleader for Appeals appearing for the respondent-LAO. 4. Accordingly, these appeal suits are also allowed in part in terms of the said common judgment declaring that the appellants are entitled to market value of the acquired lands at Rs.60,000/- per acre and they are also entitled for statutory benefits in terms of the amended provisions of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894. No costs. ______________ N.V.RAMANA, J. _______________ K.S.APPA RAO, J. 23rd June, 2011. Ak HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE N.V.RAMANA AND HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE K.S.APPA RAO L.A.A.S.Nos.404 and 407 of 2009 and 585 of 2010 (Judgment of the Division Bench delivered by NVR, J.) 23rd June, 2011.