RFA No. 653 of 1991 [1] IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision: April 29 , 2009 (1) R.F.A. No. 653 of 1991 (O&M) Dhane Ram .. Appellant Vs. State of Haryana and another .. Respondents (2) R.F.A. No. 373 of 1991 (O&M) Kanwal Singh and others .. Appellants Vs. State of Haryana .. Respondent (3) R.F.A. No. 374 of 1991 (O&M) Lajje Ram alias Sarup Singh .. Appellant Vs. The State of Haryana .. Respondent (4) R.F.A. No. 375 of 1991 (O&M) Randhir Singh .. Appellant Vs. The State of Haryana .. Respondent (5) R.F.A. No. 688 of 1991 (O&M) Sheelak Ram and others .. Appellants Vs. The State of Haryana and another .. Respondents (6) R.F.A. No. 689 of 1991 (O&M) Chand Ram (deceased) through LRs .. Appellants Vs. The State of Haryana .. Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJESH BINDAL Present: None for the appellants. Mr. Navneet Singh, Assistant Advocate General, Haryana for the State. RFA No. 653 of 1991 [2] Rajesh Bindal J. This order will dispose of a bunch of above mentioned six appeals, as the same arise out of a common acquisition. The facts have been noticed from RFA No. 653 of 1991. The land owners are in appeal against the award of the learned court below seeking further enhancement of compensation for the acquired land. Briefly, the facts are that the land measuring 3 kanals and 5 marlas, situated in village Mandora, Tehsil and District Sonepat was acquired by the State Government vide notification dated 16.1.1980, issued under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short, `the Act') for digging out escape channel by the Irrigation Department. The Land Acquisition Collector (for short, `the Collector') assessed the market value of Nehri land @ Rs. 15,000/- per acre and Rs. 10,000/- per acre for Rosli land. Aggrieved against the award of the Collector, the land owners filed objections which were referred to the learned Additional District Judge, Sonepat who keeping in view the material placed on record by the parties, assessed the market value of the acquired land at Rs. 15,500/- for Rosli land and upheld the award of the Collector for Nehri land. A perusal of the impugned award shows that the learned court below had upheld the award of the Collector considering the fact that it was practically a case of no evidence. The land owner produced on record certified copies of four sale deeds. However, neither nature of land was shown therein nor the location of land dealt with therein was pointed on any of the site plan produced on record. In the absence of that, the same were not considered. Similarly, with regard to other claims as well, the land owner had not led any evidence to justify his claim, in the absence of which there was no option with the learned court below except to uphold the impugned award. Prima facie, I do not find any reason to interfere with the impugned award. The case was shown at Sr. No. 2 in the taken up list today and was called twice. No one had appeared for the land owner. Accordingly, I deem it appropriate to dismiss the appeal in default. (Rajesh Bindal) Judge 29.4.2009 mk