R. F. A. No. 4606 of 2001 1 In the High Court of Punjab & Haryana at Chandigarh RFA No. 4606 of 2001 (O&M) Date of decision : 29.10.2010 Ratti Ram and others .....Appellants vs State of Haryana and others .....Respondents Coram: Hon'ble Mr. Justice Rajesh Bindal Present: Mr. Sandeep K. Sharma, Mr. Kulbhushan Shama, Advocates, for the appellants. Mr. D. D. Gupta, Additional Advocate General, Haryana. Rajesh Bindal J. This order shall dispose of appeals bearing RFA Nos. 4606, 5541 and 5542 of 2001, 237 of 2002, 3850 of 2003, and 2080 of 2004 and cross- objection no. 3/CI of 2003 in RFA No. 5542 of 2001, as the same arise out of common acquisition. The landowners have filed the aforesaid appeals as well as the cross- objections 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 whereas by filing appeals the State of Haryana is seeking reduction thereof. The facts have been extracted from RFA No. 4606 of 2001. Briefly, the facts are that vide notification dated 10.7.1995, issued under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short, 'the Act'), the State of Haryana acquired land falling in Villages Jharsetli and Kail, Hadbast Nos. 44 and 51 respectively, Tehsil Ballabgarh, District Faridabad, for development and utilisation thereof as industrial, commercial and institutional for Sector-59, Faridabad. The Land Acquisition Collector vide award dated 1.7.1998 assessed the market value @ ` 4,60,000/- per acre for the land in village Jharsetli and ` 3,30,000/- for the land in village Kail. Dissatisfied with the award of the Collector, the landowners filed objections. On reference under Section 18 of the Act, the learned court below determined the market value of the acquired land @ ` 425/- per square yard. It is this award which is impugned in the present set of appeals. Learned counsel for the parties conceded that the issues raised in the present set of appeals as well as in cross-objections are squarely covered by the R. F. A. No. 4606 of 2001 2 judgment of this court in R.F.A. No. 5100 of 2001 – Satbir Singh vs State of Haryana and others, decided on 13.12.2006, whereby the compensation payable for acquired land was enhanced to ` 500/- per square yard. Since this court had further enhanced the compensation for the acquired land in the aforesaid judgment, the claim of the State for reduction in compensation does not survive. Accordingly, the appeals filed by the State are dismissed and appeals as well as the cross-objections filed by the landowners are disposed of in terms of Satbir Singh's case (supra). 29.10.2010 (Rajesh Bindal) vs. Judge