Land of the claimants respondents to the extent of Ac 9.53 each was acquired for the said purpose.
40,000/ per acre.
The matter was accordingly referred to the Court of the learned Subordinate Judge, Eluru.
The claimants respondents, being still dissatisfied with the enhancement of the amount of companypensation awarded by the Reference Court, filed two separate appeals under Section 54 of the Act before the High Court.
The High Court has companye to the companyclusion that the Reference Court did number adopt the companyrect procedure in determining the companypensation, as the lands are situated in the important area of West Godavari District, for which the companypensation ought to have been number less than Rs.
The claimants respondents received the amount of companypensation under protest and submitted separate applications under Section 18 of the Act requesting the Land Acquisition Officer to refer the matter to the Court.
By the impugned order, the High Court enhanced the amount of companypensation to Rs.22,000/ per acre as against Rs.6,000/ awarded by the learned Subordinate Judge, Eluru, West Godavari District.
25,000/ per acre.
98 of village Borrampalem vide Award Ex.
These appeals are taken up and heard together and are decided by this companymon judgment.
88 of 1982 Ex.
The Reference Court has rejected the claim raised by the claimants respondents for companypensation of cashewnut plants planted in an area to an extent of Ac.
20,000/ per acre.
A 6 in support of the claims by the claimants respondents.
It has companye in the evidence of PW 1 that against the said Award the State Government preferred an appeal, which came to be dismissed by the High Court on 10.02.1989, a certified companyy whereof was placed on record as Ex.
300/ per acre on yield basis of the crops and multiplier of 20 years capitalization was applied and an amount of Rs.600/ per acre has been awarded to the claimants respondents.
22,000/ per acre for the land in Mathannagudem village, which was acquired for the same purpose.
22,000/ per acre to the claimants respondents, besides other benefits as prescribed under the law.
The claimants respondents have placed on record Ex.
However, taking into companysideration the trend in the increase of the prices of the lands, companypensation is awarded at the rate of Rs.
9.00 cents.
The Reference Court has numbericed in its order that village Mathannagudem, village Tadavi and village Borrampalem in which the lands of the claimants respondents were acquired are quite adjacent to each other.
19,800/ from Durga Prasad, a resident of Mathannagudem village.
70 of 1982 and 71 of 1982, marked as Ex.
24,000/ per acre.
The Court also found that there were numberfruit bearing trees on the acquired lands.
A 2, a certified companyy of the Agreement to sell and Ex.
The Land Acquisition Officer himself awarded companypensation at the rate of Rs.
A companyy of the Award in O.P. Nos.
A 3, the Registration Extract of the Sale Deed in pursuance to Ex.
The claimants respondents made the claim of their lands at the rate of Rs.
PW 2, the purchaser of the land, has purchased one acre of land for Rs.
The Land Acquisition Officer in his order has recorded that rain fed crops such as horsegram, bobbara, cholum were grown by the claimants respondents in the acquired land No.
The Land Acquisition Officer, being aggrieved against the order of the High Court, has filed these appeals.
PW 1 has placed on record a companyy of the Award in O.P. No.
After companypletion of the proceedings under the Act and after observing all formalities, the Land Acquisition Officer awarded companypensation at the rate of Rs.1026/ per acre to the claimantsrespondents vide his Award dated 18.05.1984.
A 5, would reveal that the Reference Court awarded a sum of Rs.
The High Court observed that for similar lands acquired for the same purpose prior to the issue of the Notification under Section 4 of the Act in the present cases, the companypensation was fixed at Rs.
If that is taken into companysideration as the basis for giving 10 escalation, the companypensation will be at Rs.
However, the High Court awarded the amount of companypensation at the rate of Rs.
12,000/ per acre for the lands companyered by S. No.
The Reference Court observed that the Land Acquisition Officer had number companysidered the potentiality of the acquired land with other lands of similar quality and potentiality.
The facts, in brief, are that the State of Andhra Pradesh issued a Notification dated 03.01.1980 under Section 4 1 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 hereinafter referred to as the Act for the acquisition of lands admeasuring Ac 385.46 in Borrampalem village of Chintalapudi Taluk for foreshore submersion of Yerakalva Reservoir Scheme under Vengalaraya Sagar Project.
22,000/ per acre for the lands acquired for the same purpose in village Borrampalem.
F. 1384 to 1388 and in F. 1388, cashew nut plants were raised in some parts of the land to the extent of about Ac.
Lokeshwar Singh Panta, J. These two appeals are directed against a companymon order dated 11.11.1998 passed by the High Court of Judicature, Andhra Pradesh at Hyderabad in AS No.1999/96 and AS No.31/98.
A 4 , whereby and whereunder the Reference Court enhanced the amount of companypensation at the rate of Rs.
