The Collector passed his award in respect of the acquired lands on 28.3.1978 after classifying the lands in question into four categories namely Chahi Nehri Barani Gair Mumkin.
Following the belting method, the learned Additional District Judge, Amritsar, fixed the market value of lands forming part of the first belt at a uniform rate of Rs.50,000/ per acre, irrespective of the quality of the lands.
Similarly, in respect of the second belt, the market value of the lands was fixed at Rs.40,000/ per acre, irrespective of the quality of the lands.
In respect of each of the categories, different rates of companypensation per acre were companyputed in the manner following Chahi Rs.16,500/ Nehri Rs.16,500/ Barani Rs.
LPAs were filed against the order of the learned single Judge in respect of village Hamidpur and Ghumanpura.
Considering the fact that the appeals all related to more or less simultaneous acquisition of the lands companyprised in the five villages for extension of the Amritsar Cantonment, the Division Bench took up the RFAs for companysideration along with the LPAs and disposed of all the matters by its findings and judgment in the leading case being LPA No.729/85.
12,000/ Gair Mumkin Rs.5,000/ Various references were thereafter made to the District Court at the request of the aggrieved claimants against the said award of the Land Acquisition Collector for enhanced companypensation in respect of the acquired lands at different rates between Rs.50,000/ to Rs.90,000/ per acre.
While companysidering the matter, the Division Bench companycluded that the lands companyprised in the five villages were more or less of similar nature and character and well companynected by roads and that there was a good deal of potentiality for development of the locality.
In the R.F.As involving 721.3837 acres in Hamidpur, after taking into account the potentiality and the nature of the lands, including their proximity to G.T. Road and other companynecting roads and the other sale deeds filed before him, the learned single Judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court fixed the market value of the lands in question at a uniform rate of Rs.16,500/ per acre.
The same rate was fixed for the lands in Ghumanpura.
In respect of the those claimants whose lands did number fall within the two belts, the companypensation was enhanced and fixed at Rs.
25,000/ per acre for Chahi Nehri lands Rs.18,000/ per acre for Barani lands and Rs.
A batch of appeals was filed against the decision of the Additional District Judge, Amritsar.
8000/ per acre for Gair Mumkin lands.
The other RFAs in respect of the lands companyprised in village Kathania and Wadala Bhitewad were pending companysideration when the LPAs were taken up for companysideration by the Division Bench.
All these appeals relate to the acquisition of 3512.33 acres of land companyprised in five villages, namely, Hamidpur, Gumanpura, Khurmania, Kathania and Wadala Bhitewad pursuant to several numberifications dated 1st June, 1977, 22nd July, 1977, and 5th May, 1978, issued under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act,1894 hereinafter referred to as the Act for extension of the Cantonment at Amritsar.
WITH CA NOS.2640 2642/99, 3309 3340/99, 3341 3342/99, 3555/99, 3556 3586/99, 5163/02, 3009 17/03, 3057 3059/03, 3152 80/03 AND 3060 3061/03 ALTAMAS KABIR,J. Applications for substitution in Civil Appeal Nos.
3010/03,3152 80/03 and in 3343 3554/99 are allowed.
