R.F.A. No.2055 of 1989 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH R.F.A. No.2055 of 1989 Date of Decision:24.08.2011 Nand Ram ......Appellant Versus State of Haryana and others .....Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MEHINDER SINGH SULLAR. Present: Mr.Ravinder Jain, Advocate, for Mr.Lalit Mohan Suri, Advocate, for the appellant. Mr.Rajiv Prashad, Deputy Advocate General, Haryana, for the respondent-State. **** M EHINDER S INGH S ULLAR , J.(oral) Learned counsel for the parties are ad idem that the controversy involved in the present appeal is squarely covered and is liable to be disposed of in the same terms of the judgment dated 26.11.1993 passed by a Coordinate Bench of this Court (N.C.Jain, J.), rendered in R.F.A. No.894 of 1990 titled as Kartar Singh Versus The State of Haryana, the operative part of which is, as under:- “For the reasons recorded above, the Chahi acquired land is evaluated at Rs.1,18,000/- per acre. The Land Acquisition Collector as well as the Additional District Judge, Kurukshetra, have evaluated Gair Mumkin land at 2/3rd value of the Chahi land which appears to be reasonable and in view thereof, Gair Mumkin land is hereby evaluated at Rs.78,666/- per acre which can be rounded off at Rs.78,700/- per acre. In view of what has been discussed above, the appeals filed by the landowners are accepted to the extent indicated above with proportionate costs. They are also held entitled to the grant of benefits of amended provisions of the Act under Sections 23(1-A), 23(2) and 28. In consequence of the acceptance of the appeals of the claimants, the appeals filed by the State of Haryana are hereby dismissed with no order as to R.F.A. No.2055 of 1989 2 costs.” In this view of the matter, the instant appeal is partly accepted. The impugned judgment/award of the lower court is modified to the extent and in the same terms of the judgment dated 26.11.1993 of this Court in Kartar Singh's case (supra). August 24, 2011 (MEHINDER SINGH SULLAR) seema JUDGE