THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE V ESWARAIAH THE HON’BLE MR JUSTICE K.S. APPA RAO A.S. NO. 1774 OF 1999 DT.2.12.2011 Between: The Land Acquisition Officer … Petitioner And Chandraya and others … Respondents Counsel for the Petitioner: Govt Pleader for Appeals Counsel for respondent: The Court made the following ORDER: THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE V ESWARAIAH THE HON’BLE MR JUSTICE K.S. APPA RAO A.S. NO. 1774 OF 1999 JUDGMENT : (Per Sri Justice V Eswaraiah) Aggrieved by the order and decree passed in O.P. No. 29 of 1995 on the ﬁle of the Senior Civil Judge, Vikarabad, Ranga Reddy district, the present appeal is ﬁled. The Land Acquisition Officer is the appellant. This is yet another appeal ﬁled by the Land Acquisition Oﬃcer, without furnishing the postal addresses of the respondents and it is noticed that in spite of the oﬃce orders, no steps were taken to bring the legal representatives of the deceased respondent/claimants and to pay the batta with correct addresses of the respondents. However, we have taken up the appeal for disposal and heard the appeal on merits. The lands of the claimants/respondents herein admeasuring Ac.0.30 cents in Survey No. 115, Ac.0.22 cents in Survey NO. 118 and Ac.0.33 cents in Survey NO. 119 of Tekulapalli village, Mominpet mandal, Ranga Reddy district was acquired for excavation of R.F canal of Nandivagu project vide section 4 (1) notiﬁcation dated 22.10.1991. After conducting enquiry, the Land Acquisition Oﬃcer, ﬁxed the market value at Rs.6,000/- per acre. Dis-satisﬁed with the compensation, the claimants sought for reference and the matter was referred to the Court of Senior Civil Judge, Vikarabad. The reference Court based on Ex.A1/registered sale deed in document NO. 1190 of 1989 which is about 2 years prior to the year of section 4 (1) notiﬁcation, whereunder an extent of Ac.0.25 cents was sold at Rs.25,000/- enhanced the market value and ﬁxed at Rs.12,000/- per acre. Questioning the same, the present appeal is filed. We have heard the learned Government Pleader for Appeal at length and perused the material available on record. On consideration of the oral and documentary evidence available on record, we are of the considered view that the reference Court by taking into consideration Ex.A1 wherein about two years prior to the date of notiﬁcation an extent of Ac.0.22 cents of land abutting the subject acquired land was sold for Rs.25,000/-, has ﬁxed the compensation at Rs.12,000/- per acre, which cannot be said to be excessive warranting interference of this Court. There are no merits in the appeal and the same is hereby dismissed. No costs. _____________ V ESWARAIAH,J _____________ K.S. APPA RAO,J DATE:02.12.2011 TVK