R.F.A. No.1139 of 1997 & 15 other connected cases 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH (1) R.F.A. No.1139 of 1997 Bhagwati Shanker and others ......Appellants Versus State of Haryana and others .....Respondents (2) R.F.A. No.1231 of 1997 State of Haryana and another ......Appellants Versus Jagdish Rai and others ....Respondents (3) R.F.A. No.1232 of 1997 State of Haryana and another ......Appellants Versus Bhagwati Shankar and others ....Respondents (4) R.F.A. No.1233 of 1997 State of Haryana ......Appellant Versus Bhagwani and others ....Respondents (5) R.F.A. No.1372 of 1997 Smt.Murti Devi ......Appellant Versus State of Haryana and others .....Respondents (6) R.F.A. No.1373 of 1997 Bhagwani and others ......Appellants Versus State of Haryana .....Respondent (7) R.F.A. No.1683 of 1997 Prabha Devi and others ......Appellants Versus State of Haryana .....Respondent R.F.A. No.1139 of 1997 & 15 other connected cases 2 (8) R.F.A. No.764 of 1998 State of Haryana and another ......Appellants Versus Murti Devi and another .....Respondents (9) R.F.A. No.3832 of 1998 State of Haryana ......Appellant Versus Parbha Devi and others .....Respondents (10) R.F.A. No.1579 of 1996 State of Haryana ......Appellant Versus Shugan Bai and others .....Respondents (11) R.F.A. No.1580 of 1996 State of Haryana ......Appellant Versus Bharat Singh and others .....Respondents (12) R.F.A. No.1581 of 1996 State of Haryana ......Appellant Versus Jagdish Goyal and another .....Respondents (13) R.F.A. No.2078 of 1996 Bharat Singh and others ......Appellants Versus State of Haryana .....Respondent (14) R.F.A. No.2121 of 1996 Sher Singh and others ......Appellants Versus State of Haryana .....Respondent (15) R.F.A. No.1778 of 1997 R.F.A. No.1139 of 1997 & 15 other connected cases 3 State of Haryana ......Appellant Versus Vijender Kumar .....Respondent (16) R.F.A. No.2178 of 1997 Vijender Kumar ......Appellant Versus State of Haryana .....Respondent Date of Decision:08.08.2011 CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MEHINDER SINGH SULLAR. Present: Mr.Anjum Ahmed, Additional Advocate General, Haryana. Mr.Mani Ram Verma, Advocate. **** M EHINDER S INGH S ULLAR , J.(oral) Learned counsel for the parties are ad idem that the controversy involved in the present appeals is squarely covered and are liable to be disposed of in the same terms of the judgment dated 18.02.1999, rendered in R.F.A. No.947 of 1994 titled as Shanti Devi and others Versus State of Haryana, passed by a Coordinate Bench of this Court (Swatanter Kumar, J.), the operative part of which is, as under:- “For the aforesaid reasons, I hold that the fair market value of the acquired land at the time of issuance of notification under section 4 of the Act should be Rs.79.98 paise per square yard in place of Rs.125/- per square yard granted by the learned District Judge. The claimants in addition thereto would be entitled to statutory benefits of section 23(1-A), (23-2) and section 28 of the Act. Resultantly, the appeals filed by the State are partly accepted by fixing the aforesaid amount of compensation and all the appeals preferred by the claimants shall stand dismissed. However, in the facts and circumstances of the case, the parties shall be left to bear their own costs.” R.F.A. No.1139 of 1997 & 15 other connected cases 4 In this view of the matter and after hearing the learned counsel for the parties, going through the record with their valuable assistance and after deep consideration of the entire matter, the instant appeals are disposed of in the same terms of the judgment dated 18.02.1999 of this Court in Shanti Devi and others' case(supra).) August 08, 2011 (MEHINDER SINGH SULLAR) seema JUDGE