RFA No. 5111 of 2010 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH RFA No. 5111 of 2010 (O&M) Date of decision: 3.3.2011 Bharat Ram .....Appellant vs State of Haryana and another .....Respondents Coram: Hon'ble Mr. Justice Rajesh Bindal Present: Mr. Rajeev Godara, and P. S. Jammu, Advocates, for the land owners. Mr. Ashish Gupta, Assistant Advocate General, Haryana. Rajesh Bindal J. This order will dispose of appeals bearing RFA Nos. 5111, 5466 to 5470 of 2010, and 397 to 399 of 2011, as common questions of law and facts are involved. The landowners have filed the aforesaid appeals seeking enhancement of compensation for the acquired land. Briefly the facts of the case are that the State of Haryana vide notification dated 25.2.2005 issued under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short, 'the Act'), sought to acquire land situated in village Madhosinghana, Tehsil Ellenabad, District Sirsa, for construction of extension of Mangala Direct Minor from R. D. 27000-990000 tail off taking from Ottu Lake at R. D. 6300-I of left embankment of river Ghaggar and vide notification of same date, the land of village Poharkan, Tehsil Ellenabad, District Sirsa was acquired, for construction of Poharkan minor from R. D. 0-16750 tail of taking R. D. 49700-LSGC and Poharkan Sub- minor from R. D. 0-7800 off taking from R. D. 110000-I of Poharkan minor. The Land Acquisition Collector (for short, 'the Collector') vide award dated 2.5.2006 assessed the market value of the acquired land @ ` 5,00,000/- per acre. Dissatisfied with the awards of the Collector, the landowners filed objections. On reference under Section 18 of the Act, the learned court RFA No. 5111 of 2010 -2- below assessed the market value of the acquired land @ ` 8 lacs per acre for village Poharkan and @ ` 7,78,500/- per acre for village Madhosinghana. It is against this award, the landowners are in appeal before this court. Learned counsel for the landowners fairly submitted that the issue raised in the present set of appeals is squarely covered by judgment of this court in RFA No. 276 of 2009 Mohinder Singh and others vs State of Haryana and others decided on 3.2.2011, whereby the award of the learned court below determining the market value of land acquired in villages Shekhukhera and Madhosinghana vide notification of same date, was upheld. Learned State counsel did not dispute the aforesaid factual position. In the present case even for the land of village Poharkan, the Collector as well as the learned court below had awarded same amount of compensation which was awarded to the landowners of villages Madhosinghana and Shekhukhera. A perusal of judgment in Mohinder Singh's case (supra), shows that this court had upheld the award of the learned court below awarding compensation @ ` 8,00,000/- per acre for the land acquired vide notification dated 25.2.2005 of villages Madhosinghana and Shekhukhera. The landowners in the present set of appeals have also been awarded same amount of compensation which was upheld by this court in Mohinder Singh's case (supra). Accordingly, for the reasons recorded in Mohinder Singh's case (supra), the appeals are disposed of in terms thereof. 3.3.2011 (Rajesh Bindal) vs Judge