1 HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION. FIRST APPEAL St. NO.15992/1992 WITH CIVIL APPLICATION NO.5516/1993 The State of Maharashtra. ..Appellant -VERSUS- Ranganath Nathu Agaskar and others. ..Respondents ......... Ms.G.P.Mulekar, A.G.P. for the appellant. None for the respondents. .......... CORAM : A.P.DESHPANDE, J. DATED : 12th MARCH, 2009. P.C. : 1. For the reasons stated in Civil Application No.5516/1993, the delay is condoned. The application is disposed of. 2. Taken up for final hearing at the request of the learned A.G.P.. 3. The land of the respondents came to be acquired for the public purpose under the provisions of the Land Acquisition Act. The respondents not being satisfied with the amount of compensation determined by the Land Acquisition Officer moved an application 2 under Section 18 of the Land Acquisition Act, pursuant to which, the reference was made to the Civil Court. The Joint District Judge enhanced the compensation after arriving at the conclusion that the market value of the land is Rs.10/- per square metre. While reaching the said conclusion, the Joint District Judge has placed reliance on the judgment passed in L.A.R. No.38/1988. Aggrieved by the award passed by the Joint District Judge dated 31.01.1992 the present appeal has been filed. 4. The learned A.G.P. for the appellant in all fairness has placed on record various judgments rendered by this Court in relation to the lands acquired from the village Koparkhairne and adjoining villages in regard to which the market value has been determined at the rate of Rs.10/- per square metre. 5. Perused the judgment in First Appeal No.813/1993 along with the connected appeals dated 26.10.2005 wherein the learned Single Judge has observed that in many matters from village Koparkhairne, this Court has fixed the market value of the land to be Rs.10/- per square metre. Thus, the compensation on that basis has been awarded. The judgments dated 10.10.2007 passed in First Appeals Nos.166/1993 and 357/1993 are also placed on record which are in regard to the acquisition of land from the adjoining villages Savali and Talwadi wherein applying the same rate the compensation has been awarded placing reliance on the judgment rendered in First Appeal No.813/1993. It is, thus, clear that the lands situated in 3 village Koparkhairne have been valued at Rs.10/- per square metre for the purpose of payment of compensation, it being the market value. The same is the amount awarded in the present appeal. Thus, the same does not call for any interference. 6. The learned A.G.P. has submitted that the lands forming the subject matter of the present appeal have been acquired under the same notification by which the lands in First Appeal No.813/1993 and other connected appeals were acquired. 7. In that view of the matter there being no merit in the appeal, the same stands dismissed with no orders as to costs. The judgments are taken on record and marked as “X” collectively. JUDGE