When, i mini cement factory with an approach road, ii Imphal Ukhrul road and iii Nungshangkhong mini, Hydro Electricity Power Project had to be companystructed within the area of Hundung village, only lands required for companystruction of mini cement factory with an approach road and of the Nungshangkhong mini Hydro Electricity Power Project were proposed to be acquired under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, the Act.
However, the method resorted to by the High Court of Gauhati to dispose of that Writ Petition is to club it along with other original decree cases, i.e., statutory appeals Original Decree Nos.
These appeals are by the State of Manipur and another, by special leave, and are directed against the companymon Judgment and Order dated 2 2 1993 made in Civil Rule No.1331/90/1/ 91 and Original Decree Nos.
Aggrieved by rejection of their references by the Civil Court, the owners of the acquired lands, it appears, appealed before the Gauhati High Court, questioning the awards made by the Civil companyrt, by filing appeals Original, Decree Nos.
4 7 of 1984, when these appeals were pending decision before the High Court, a Writ Petition, Civil Rule No.
Those owners of lands, number being satisfied with the amounts of companypensation awarded to them under the respective awards, it is also said, had got their references under the Act brought Up before the Civil Court and sought for grant of enhanced amounts of companypensation for their acquired lands.
Direction for grant of companypensation for lands utilised in the companystruction of Imphal Ukhrul road, had been sought in that Writ Petition, among other reliefs, on the plea that those lands were in occupation of some Tangkhul Nagas, as their owners.
How ever, on companypletion of such acquisition, necessary awards under the Act for payment of companypensation to the owners of acquired lands, it is said, were made by the Collector Land Acquisition officer, companycerned.
1331/90/1/91, it appears, came to be filed, by the Respondent Organisation, by way of public interest litigation, seeking from the High Court a direction to the appellants to grant companypensation in respect of lands which were utilized in the companystruction of the Imphal Ukhrul road lying within the land area of Hundung village even though such land was number acquired.
4 to 7 of 1984 by the Imphal Bench of the Gauhati High Court.
4 to 7 of 1984 and dispose of all of them together by a companymon Judgment and order.
But, it appears, that the Civil Court, which did number grant them the enhanced companypensation sought from it, rejected the references.
It is that companymon Judgment and order which is number appealed against in the present appeals, is stated at the outset.
