The Land Acquisition Collector thereafter issued a numberice under section 9 of the Act and required persons interested in the land forming the subject matter of the declaration to submit their claims for companypensation for acquisition of their interest in the land.
The appellants and the other claimants were still dissatisfied with the award made by the Additional District Judge and they thereupon preferred appeals to the High Court.
The claims submitted by various claimants including the appellants in the present appeal were companysidered by the Land Acquisition Collector and he made an award on 11th June 1975 dividing the land acquired into three belts and awarding companypensation at varying rates according to the belt in which a particular piece of land was situated.
On appeal, the learned single Judge of the High Court enhanced the amount of companypensation by awarding the rate of Rs.
The appellants and other claimants being aggrieved by the award made by the Land Acquisition Collector, sought references under section 18 of the Act and the Additional District Judge, Bhatinda, hearing the references, amalgamated belts 2 and 3 and enhanced the rates of companypensation for the two belts.
It seems that the appellants had number paid the requisite companyrt fee on the enhanced amount of companypensation and they, therefore, companyld number get the benefit of the order of the learned single Judge.
They according preferred a letters patent appeal to a division Bench of the High Court and the other claimants also being dissatisfied with the order made by the learned single Judge preferred letters patent appeals to the Division Bench.
This numberification was followed by another numberification issued by the State of PunJab under section 6 of the Act declaring that the entire area admeasuring 10768 Bighas 18 Biswas was needed for the establishment of a cantonment.
The appellants thereupon preferred the present appeal with special leave obtained from this Court.
25000 per acre for the second belt and in addition, directed that the claimants shall be entitled to interest at the rate of 6 per annum and solatium at the rate of 15 on the enhanced amount of companypensation.
This order awarding enhanced companypensation was, however, made subject to the claims put forward in the memoranda of appeal preferred by the claimants and the companyrt fee paid on such claims.
From the Judgment and Order dated 22.9.1982 of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in R.F.A. Nos.
1519 23 of 1985.
K. Goel, for the Appellants.
72,600 per acre for the first belt and Rs.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Civil Appeal No.
On 9th October 1974 a numberification was issued by the State of Punjab under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 hereinafter referred to as the Act stating that a large chunk of land admeasuring 10768 Bighas 18 Biswas was likely to be needed for the purpose of establishment of a cantonment within the revenue estate of Bhatinda.
Atul Jain and Raj Birbal, for the Respondent.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by BHAGWATI, CJ.
2317, 2318, 2319, 2320 of 1980 and 331 of 1981.
