R.F.A. No. 2051 of 1990 [1] IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH R.F.A. No. 2051 of 1990 (O&M) Date of decision: 2.2.2011 Smt. Saroj and others .. Appellants v. State of Haryana and another .. Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJESH BINDAL Present: Mr. A. S. Virk, Advocate for the appellants. Mr. Ashish Gupta, Assistant Advocate General, Haryana. ... Rajesh Bindal J. The land owners are in appeal seeking further enhancement of compensation for the acquired land. Briefly, the facts of the case are that vide notification dated 27.1.1987, published on 10.2.1987, issued under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short, `the Act'), State of Haryana sought to acquire 6.51 acres of land in village Devar Khana, Tehsil Bahadurgarh for construction of approaches and protection of Bahadurgarh road work of H. L. Bridge over drain No. 8 on Gurgaon-Bahadurgarh road (Section Badli to Iqbalpur). The same was followed by notification dated 17.6.1987, issued under Section 6 of the Act. The Land Acquisition Collector (for short, `the Collector'), vide award dated 10.9.1987, assessed the market value of the acquired land @ ` 25,000/- per acre for chahi land. Dissatisfied with the award of the Collector, the land owners filed objections. On reference under Section 18 of the Act, the learned court below assessed the market value of the acquired land @ ` 65,000/- per acre. R.F.A. No. 2051 of 1990 [2] Learned counsel for the land owners submitted that value of the acquired land, as has been assessed by the court below, calls for further increase considering the evidence on record produced by them. Sale deeds (Ex. P1, Ex. P2, Ex. P4 and Ex. P5) have been totally ignored and it was only sale deed (Ex. P3), which was considered. If the other sale deeds are considered, the value of the acquired land deserves to be enhanced to at least ` 2,50,000/- per acre. On the other hand, learned counsel for the State submitted that none of the sale deeds produced by the land owners was in fact relevant, but still the learned court below has relied upon sale deed (Ex. P3) to assess compensation for the acquired land. Sale deeds (Ex. R2 and Ex. R3) produced by the State fully justified the award of the Collector. In fact, the amount assessed by him was even more than that. Heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the relevant referred record. The land in question was acquired for the purpose of construction of approaches and protection of Bahadurgarh road work of H. L. Bridge over drain No. 8 on Gurgaon-Bahadurgarh road (Section Badli to Iqbalpur) and pertained to revenue estate of village Devar Khana. The land owners produced six sale deeds on record, namely, Ex. P1 to Ex. P6. None of them pertained to village Devar Khana. Though it was sought to be submitted that these are pertaining to land located quite close to the acquired land, but to that effect was merely an oral evidence on record and there is no document or site plan to justify the same. In the absence of any clinching evidence to show that the sale deeds produced on record pertained to the land which was comparable in its value considering its location, no case for enhancement of compensation can possibly be made out. Accordingly, the appeal is dismissed. ( Rajesh Bindal ) Judge 2.2.2011 mk