Digitally Signed By:AMULYA Certify that the digital file and physical file have been compared and the digital data is as per the physical file and no page is missing. Signature Not Verified C.M. No.13033/2011 (delay) The present application is filed by the appellants praying inter a/ia for condonation of delay of 115 days in preferring the accompanying appeal. At the outset, counsel for the appellants states that in case the delay of 115 days in preferring the accompanying appeal is condoned, the appellants shall not claim interest on the enhanced amount for the period of delay. . Counsel for the respondent No. 1/Union of India and respondent No. 2/DDA state that they have no objection to the aforesaid suggestion made by the counsel for the appellants. Accordingly, the present application is allowed with the condition that the appellants shall not be entitled to claim interest on the enhanced amount for the period of delay of 115 days in preferring the appeal. The application is disposed of. LA.APP. 371/2011 1. By way of the present appeal, the appellants have assailed the judgment 25.5.2010 passed by the Reference Court in LAC No.91/08 arising out of Award No.01/DCW/2006-07 pertaining to village Bakkarwala passed pursuant to the notification dated 17.6.2005 issued under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act 1894 (in short 'the Act') LA.APP. 371/2011 Page 2 of 4 and the declaration dated 3 1.5.2006 issued under Section 6 of the Act. Counsel for the appellants submits that the present case is squarely covered by the judgment of a co-ordinate Bench (Pradeep Nandrajog, J.) passed in a batch of matters, lead matter being LA.APP.No.784/2005 entitled 'Jamna vs. UOI & Ors.' decided as recently as on 8.7.2011. Counsels for the parties state that in the aforesaid batch of matters, apart from the land acquired in village Mundka , the learned . Single Judge had also decided the cases arising out of the same Award - covered under Section 4 of the Act dated 17.6.2005 pertaining to village Bakkarwala. In this regard they draw the attention of this Court to the operative para 33 of the aforesaid judgment, relevant portions of which are reproduced herein below : I 33. Accordingly, the appeals filed by the Union of India require to be dismissed and I hereby dismiss the same. The appeals filed by the land owners and the cross-objections filed by the land owners stands decreed as under:- xxx xxx xxx For the land situated in Village Bakkarwala the fair market value is fixed at 4,98,589/- per bigha i.e. 23,93,227.20 per acre, as on 17.06.2005. xxx LA.APP. 371/2011 Page 3 of 4 Appellants and cross-objectors who have succeeded would also be entitled to solatium and interest as per statute and as clarified in the decision reported as 93(2001) DLT 569 Sunder vs. UOI, for the compensation, paid originally and as enhanced by the Reference Court and finally on the sum enhanced by the present judgment and decree. The appellants and cross-objectors who succeed would aisd be entitled to proportionate costs. All pending applications stand disposed of in terms of the prayers made therein." It is submitted by the counsel for the appellants that th appellants are also entitled to the relief as granted to other similarly placed appellants in the aforesaid batch of matters, to which counsel for the respondent/UOI has no objection. Following the aforesaid decision dated 8.7.2011 in the case of Jamna (supra), the present appeal is also disposed of on the same lines, whilegranting the same relief to the appellants as granted to the appellants in the LA.APP.784/2005. However, it is clarified that the appellants shall not be entitled to claim interest on the enhanced compensation for the period of delay of 115 days in preferring the appeal, in terms of the orders passed today in C.M. No.1-3033/2011 preferred by the appellants for condonation of delay in filing the JULY 20, 2011/sk HIMA KOHLI,J LA.APP. 371/2011 Page 1 of 4 4