RFA No. 1733 of 1990 (1) In the High Court of Punjab & Haryana at Chandigarh RFA No. 1733 of 1990 (O&M) Date of decision : 21.2.2011 Babu Singh and another ... Appellants vs State of Punjab ..... Respondent Coram: Hon'ble Mr. Justice Rajesh Bindal Present: Mr. H. S. Bhullar, Advocate, for the appellants. Mr. Yatinder Shama, Deputy Advocate General, Punjab. Rajesh Bindal J. Challenge in the present appeal is to the order dated 11.5.1990, passed by the learned court below, whereby the application filed by the appellants under Section 28-A of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short, `the Act') was dismissed as time-barred. A perusal of the paper book and the record shows that the appellants filed application under Section 28-A of the Act before the Collector on 1.6.1987 claiming parity of compensation awarded to other land owners by the Reference Court vide order dated 12.2.1986. In terms of Section 28-A of the Act, such an application could be filed within 3 months from the date of award sought to be relied upon. Proviso thereto provides that the time spent in obtaining certified copy of the award sought to be relied upon would be in addition to the period of three months. Learned counsel for the appellants could not point out any material on record which the learned court below had not considered or wrongly considered while deciding the reference. In the present case, the record shows that it is only photo copy of the certified copy of the award relied upon which was placed on record by the appellants before the court below, where copy was applied on 18.2.1986 and the same was prepared RFA No. 1733 of 1990 (2) and delivered on 24.3.1986. The application having been filed on 1.6.1987 on the basis of the aforesaid award is beyond the period of limitation. There is no justifiable reason to interfere with the impugned award. Accordingly, the appeal is dismissed. 21.2.2011 (Rajesh Bindal) vs. Judge