IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.1303 of 2007 CHANDESHWAR SINGH & ORS Versus GENERAL MANAGER,EAST CENTRAL R ----------- 4 8/5/2008 Heard the parties. In this writ application three petitioners have moved this Court for two directions, namely, that the award amount in respect of Award No. 137 dated 9.2.2004 passed in Land Acquisition Case No. 10 of 2002-03 should be apportioned to the extent of 50% as three petitioners are owners of the land. It has been alleged that the respondents have made payment of 100% of the amount to respondent nos. 8 and 9 treating them to be land holders. Section 30 of the Land Acquisition Act provides for deciding the issue of apportionment at the behest of person interested i.e. land holder as defined in the Land Acquisition Act where there is a provision to move before the Collector of the district for this purpose. It however appears that no such application has been filed by the petitioners. In that view of the matter, this Court gives liberty to the petitioners to move an application under section 30 of the Land Acquisition Act before the Collector of Saran district. As with regard to second relief that the petitioners should be provided job in view of scheme of railways in addition of amount of compensation, this Court finds from the counter 2 affidavit that under the said policy, when an enquiry was made and the list was recommended by the Collector of Saran District, names of the petitioners were not included therein. The petitioners, however, claimed that they had filed application on 28.9.2006 as contained in Annexure 4 which was followed by representation dated 6.11.2006 as contained in Annexure 4/1. This issue with regard to entitlement of job under some scheme of railways has to be gone into by the authorities concerned, and if the petitioners have filed their representation to this effect, it is expected that the Collector of the District would look into this aspect of the matter and pass a reasoned order. In order to expedite the matter sofar claim of employment in railways is concerned, the petitioners are at liberty to move before the Collector of Saran district and in the event a fresh representation is filed by the petitioners, the Collector of Saran district will examine the same and pass an order in accordance with law preferably within a period of three months from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order. With the above observation this application is disposed of. ( Mihir Kumar Jha, J.) Abhay Kumar.