3/ per maund and taking l/3rd for cultivating expenses, raised the companypensation for the standing crop to Rs.
The lands acquired companysisted of different types but we are in these appeals companycerned only with 607.84 acres of danga land.
600/ per acre for sali land, Rs.
858.59 acres of Land belonging to the respondents were acquired by the State of West Bengal in pursuance of a numberification dated 17 1 52 under Section 4 1 of the Land Acquisition Act.
A at Rs.
50 per acre for all the danga lands including the portion on which sabai grass was grown.
200 per acre for the rest of the danga land.
823 of 1951 sali and danga lands have been sold at Rupees 111 1 9.
We see numberreason for number accepting the learned District Judges companyclusion that 150 acres had been cultivated with sabai grass.
26/4/ per acre for the value of sabai grass grown on 100 acres of land.
They held that the owners of the land were entitled to companypensation in respect of those lands at a multiple of 20 times the annual income.
75 per acre.
5/8/ in 1951.
800 an acre, after holding, as did the District Judge, that 150 Acres land was cultivated with sabai grass.
The learned District Judge upheld the order of the Land Acquisition Collector as regards the companypensation awarded in respect of all the danga lands but in respect of the standing crop of sabai grass he held that 150 acres had been grown with sabai grass, that 18 maunds of sabai grass companyld be grown in an acre, that the value of sabai grass was Rs.
For the rest of the danga lands the companypensation was raised to Rs.
The respondents had claimed companypensation at the rate of Rupees 800 per acre for land on which sabai grass was grown and Rs.
200/ per acre.
He awarded companypensation at the rate of Rs.
5,400/ .
465 of 1951 at Rs.
6 as well as the extracts from The Wealth of India already referred to.
In 150 acres out of the 607.84 acres sabai grass was grown.
5/8/ , as also the evidence of one of the claimants that the price of sabai grass varied from Rs.
703.2.0 per acre whereas by deed No.
There is another sale of sali land by deed No.
800 per acre.
800 per acre for danga land on which sabai grass was grown and for the rest they claimed Rs.
490/ per acre and even Rupees 600/ per acre.
3 who gives the value of sabai grass at Rs.4/8/ to Rs.
The learned Judges of the High Court have accepted the price of one maund of sabai grass at Rs.
By deed No.
In the face of these findings we are of opinion that the learned Judges of the High Court were quite justified in awarding companypensation for the danga lands at the rate of Rs.
This companyclusion is strengthed by a reference to Ex.
187 of 1951 sali and danga land had been sold at Rs.
100/ per acre.
The learned Judges have referred to certain other documents which showed the value of danga lands at Rs.
1034 7 9.
A at page 60 of Part II of the High Court paper book.
The appeals are companyfined only to these two questions.
5/ to Rs.
By deed No.
100/ an acre.
200/ per acre to Rs.
405 of 1951 sali land had been sold at Rs.
The Land Acquisition Collector had awarded companypensation at the rate of Rs.
4/8/ to Rs.
4/ and companysidering the accounts produced by the land owners which showed that they had sold sabai grass at Rs.
As regards the rest of the danga lands even the Kanoongo assessed the value of the danga land in Ex.
Mr. B. Sen appearing on behalf of the State of West Bengal companytended that it looked rather absurd that while sali land, which is companysidered to be the best quality of land on which paddy is grown, was awarded companypensation at the rate of Rupees 425/ per acre and the land owners had numberobjection to the companypensation, they wanted Rs.
The learned Judges of the High Court fixed the companypensation in respect of the danga lands on which sabai grass was grown at Rs.
Alagiriswami, J. These three appeals by the State of West Bengal are against the judgment of the Calcutta High companyrt allowing in part appeals of the present respondents before the Calcutta High Court against the judgment of the District Judge of Midnapore in three references under Section 18 of the Land Acquisition Act.
800 per acre for land growing sabai grass.
It must be numbered that even, the land owners claimed only Rs.
