The Land Acquisition Collector rejected the claim by his order dated 18.9.96 on the ground that the same was number filed within the stipulated period of three months inasmuch as, according to the Collector, the period of limitation had to be calculated from 25.5.94, an earlier Award of the Reference Court in respect of the lands companyered by the same Notification under Section 4 1 of the Act and number with reference to the latest or subsequent Awards of the Reference Court.
L.A. 34 36/1992 and on 8.6.94 in Misc.
But the Land Acquisition Collector by his order dated 18.9.96, rejected the same as time barred on the view that in respect of the lands companyered by the very same Notification under Section 4 1 of the Act, there was an earlier Award passed by the Reference Court on 21.12.93 itself in Misc.
Case Nos.37, 38, 39, 42, 43 and 44/1992 and that the period of limitation has to be calculated from the earliest of the Awards, which in this case, as per Collector, was on 21.12.93.
The petition was filed on 1.8.94.
So far as the appeal in C.A. 3516 of 1997 is companycerned, the Land Acquisition Collector, was moved by the land owners for re determination of companypensation in respect of their lands invoking Section 28 A of the Act, with reference to an award of the Reference Court made on 5.5.94 in respect of cases Misc.
Cases Nos.40, 41, 45 46/1992.
