RFA No. 1071 of 2002 (O&M) (1) In the High Court of Punjab & Haryana at Chandigarh Date of decision: 5.5.2009 1. RFA No. 1071 of 2002 (O&M) Ranbir Singh ..... Appellant vs The State of Haryana and others ..... Respondents 2. RFA No. 1156 of 2002 (O&M) M/s Viksun Agro Private Limited ..... Appellant vs The State of Haryana and others ..... Respondents 3. RFA No. 1157 of 2002 (O&M) Hukam Singh and others ..... Appellants vs The State of Haryana and others ..... Respondents 4. RFA No. 1158 of 2002 (O&M) Savitri Devi and others ..... Appellants vs The State of Haryana and others ..... Respondents 5. RFA No. 1363 of 2002 (O&M) Surender Singh and others ..... Appellants vs State of Haryana and others ..... Respondents 6. RFA No. 1375 of 2002 (O&M) Lajpat Rai ..... Appellant vs The State of Haryana and others ..... Respondents 7. RFA No. 1376 of 2002 (O&M) Jai Singh and others ..... Appellants vs The State of Haryana and others ..... Respondents 8. RFA No. 1377 of 2002 (O&M) Sukhbir and others ..... Appellants vs The State of Haryana and others ..... Respondents RFA No. 1071 of 2002 (O&M) (2) 9. RFA No. 1379 of 2002 (O&M) Raghbir and others ..... Appellants vs The State of Haryana and others ..... Respondents 10. RFA No. 1380 of 2002 (O&M) Prakashi and others ..... Appellants vs The State of Haryana and others ..... Respondents 11. RFA No. 1381 of 2002 (O&M) Prakashi and others ..... Appellants vs The State of Haryana and others ..... Respondents 12. RFA No. 1382 of 2002 (O&M) Raghbir Singh and others ..... Appellants vs The State of Haryana and others ..... Respondents 13. RFA No. 1383 of 2002 (O&M) Raghbir Singh and others ..... Appellants vs The State of Haryana and others ..... Respondents 14. RFA No. 1384 of 2002 (O&M) Raghbir Singh and others ..... Appellants vs The State of Haryana and others ..... Respondents 15. RFA No. 1385 of 2002 (O&M) Ishwar and others ..... Appellants vs The State of Haryana and others ..... Respondents 16. RFA No. 3112 of 2003 (O&M) Smt. Santosh and others ..... Appellants vs The State of Haryana and others ..... Respondents RFA No. 1071 of 2002 (O&M) (3) 17. RFA No. 762 of 2004 (O&M) Chand Kaur and others ..... Appellants vs The State of Haryana and others ..... Respondents Coram: Hon'ble Mr. Justice Rajesh Bindal Present: Mr. Alok Jain, and Ram Pal Verma, Advocates, for the appellants. Mr. Lokesh Sinhal, Additional Advocate General, Haryana. Rajesh Bindal J. This order shall dispose of above mentioned 17 appeals, as common questions of law and facts are involved. The facts have been noticed from RFA No. 1071 of 2002. The landowners have filed the present appeal before this court against the award of the learned court below passed under Section 18 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short, 'the Act') seeking enhancement of compensation for the acquired land. Briefly, the facts of the case are that State of Haryana, vide notification dated 9.11.1992 issued under Section 4 of the Act, acquired land of Village Hashamabad, Hadbast No. 85, Tehsil and District Sonepat, for development and utilisation of land as residential and commercial area in Sonepat. The Land Acquisition Collector assessed the market value of the acquired land @ Rs. 2 Lac per acre for chahi/nehri and Rs. 1 lac per acre for gair mumkin kind of land. The landowners feeling dissatisfied with the amount of compensation awarded by the Collector, filed objections, which were referred to the learned Reference Court, who keeping in view the material placed on record by the parties, assessed the market value of the acquired land @ Rs. 125/- per square yard for chahi/nehri and Rs. 75/- per square yard for banjar/gair mumkin kinds of land. It is this order which is impugned in the present set of appeals. Learned counsel for the parties are ad-idem that the claim made by the landowners in the present set of appeals is squarely covered by earlier judgment of this court in RFA No. 805 of 2001 Ram Mehar vs State RFA No. 1071 of 2002 (O&M) (4) of Haryana and another, decided on 30.7.2008, whereby compensation payable to the landowners for the land pertaining to the same acquisition was further enhanced to Rs. 200/- per square yard. In the aforesaid order passed in Ram Mehar's case (supra), this court had relied upon earlier judgments in RFA No. 2453 of 2002 Smt. Chanderpati and others vs State of Haryana and another decided on 30.5.2007 and RFA No. 2082 of 2001 Reema Garg vs State of Haryana and others decided on 25.1.2008. It was also pointed out in the present set of appeals, the Reference Court has determined the compensation payable to the landowners relying upon the earlier award in the case of Reema Garg's case which was subject matter of RFA No. 2082 of 2001, aforesaid. In view of the aforesaid stand of learned counsel for the parties, the present appeals are allowed in terms of Ram Mehar's case (supra). 5.5.2009 ( Rajesh Bindal) vs. Judge