R.F.A. No. 3434 of 2001 [1] IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH R.F.A. No. 3434 of 2001 (O&M) Date of decision: 21.12.2011 State of Haryana and another .. Appellants Vs. Nanki Bai and others .. Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJESH BINDAL Present: Mr. Ashish Gupta, Assistant Advocate General, Haryana. Mr. Arun Singal, Advocate for the land owner(s). Rajesh Bindal J. This order will dispose of R.F.A. Nos. 3434, 4798 to 4800 of 2001, 3295, 3463 of 2002 and 2667 of 2004. as common questions of law and facts are involved. The State is in appeal seeking reduction of compensation awarded to the land owners by the learned court below for the acquired land, whereas by filing appeal, the land owners are seeking enhancement thereof. However, the facts have been extracted from RFA No. 3434 of 2001. Briefly, the facts of the case are that vide notification dated 2.3.1993, issued under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short, `the Act'), State of Haryana sought to acquire 385.44 acres of land, situated in villages Nizampur, Sarai Bachhra, Azizulapur, Patti Magdum Jagdan, Patti Taraf Insar and Faridpur, Tehsil and District Panipat for residential and commercial area in Sector 18, Panipat. The same was followed by notification dated 1.3.1994, issued under Section 6 of the Act. R.F.A. No. 3434 of 2001 [2] The Land Acquisition Collector (for short, `the Collector') assessed compensation @ ` 185.60 per square yard. Dissatisfied with the award of the Collector, the land owners filed objections. On reference under Section 18 of the Act, the learned court below upheld the compensation awarded by the Collector. Learned counsel for the State fairly conceded that the claim made in the present set of appeals is squarely covered by the judgment of this court in RA No. 84-CI of 2007 in RFA No. 2600 of 2001—Bahadur Chand v. State of Haryana and another, decided on 5.8.2008, whereby the compensation was enhanced to ` 200/- per square yard. Learned counsel for the landowners did not dispute the aforesaid fact. For the detailed reasons recorded in Bahadur Chand's case (supra), the appeals are disposed of in terms thereof. ( Rajesh Bindal ) Judge 21.12.2011 mk