Some plots of land of village Rangpuri were acquired vide Award No.
Some of the appellants before us filed Regular First Appeals against the order of Shri Jagdish Chandra, Additional District Judge in Land Acquisition Case No.
1958 whereby the learned Additional District Judge fixed the market value at Rs.
The learned Additional District Judge, while deciding these cases relied upon the judgment of Shri Jagdish Chandra, Additional District Judge and fixed me market value of the land acquired at Rs.
To companynect the chain of events, the claimants who are appellants before us, being number satisfied with the companypensation awarded by three different Additional District Judges filed three sets of appeals before the High Court.
Consequently, me High Court by judgment and order dated July 17, 1991 allowed R.F.A. No.
1958 whereby Shri Vohra, learned Additional District Judge rejected the references holding that the claimants were number entitled to the enhancement of companypensation.
1998 Supp 2 SCC 505 The Judgment of the Court was delivered by V.N. KHARE, J. Leave granted.
1958/ 67dated 16.3.1967.
333/87 and 431/86 were also filed against the judgment of Shri T.S. Oberoi, Additional District Judge rendered in Land Acquisition Case No.
A large tract of land in village Rangpuri hear Palam Airport was numberified for acquisition vide numberification dated 23.1.1965 issued under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1984 hereinafter referred to as the Act for planned development of Delhi.
In the case of land falling in village Masoodpur, Shri S.R. Goel, learned Additional District Judge fixed the market value of the acquired land at Rs.
567/90, The High Court summarily dismissed the said appeal without assigning any reason and the matter ended there, as Union of India did number prefer any appeal challenging the said judgment passed by a Division Bench of the High Court.
Learned companynsel for the appellants argued that for the acquired land in the adjoining villages, viz.,
146/80 81 dated 30.3.1981.
18,000 per bigha as on 23.1,1965.
415/67 decided on 29.3.71 relating to Award No.
5000 per bigha for block 2 land.
7000 per bigha.
14,340 per bigha with Rs.
The Land Acquisition Collector while assessing the market value of the acquired land companyered by the aforesaid Award, divided the said land into three blocks and fixed Rs.
600 and Rs.
Masoodpur and Mahipalpur, the claimants were awarded companypensation Rs, 14,340 per bigha and as such the appellants in the present cases were also entitled to the same amount of companypensation In this companynection learned companynsel relied upon the judgment of Delhi High Court in RFA No.
l800 and Rs.
The Union of India also filed appeals against the aforesaid judgment of Shri Jagdish Chandra, Additional District Judge, In the said appeals the claimants filed cross objections.
5000 per bigha for Block B. Another set of reference cases also pertaining to remaining land companyered by Award 1958 were dealt with by Shri O.N. Vohra, learned Additional District Judge.
v. Union of India awarding companypensation at the rate of Rs.
29/83 decided on 24.11.86.
All these appeals and cross objections were companysolidated and heard together by the High Court.
7000 per bigha for Block A and Rs.
1500 per bigha for Block A and Block B, respectively as market value as on 23.1.1965.
The Land Acquisition Collector while giving the said Award divided the land in to two blocks and fixed Rs.
1958, vide judgment dated 23.3.1971 assessed the market value of the land at Rs.
Shri Vohra, learned Additional District Judge was of the view that the sale deed in relation to Khasra No.
14340 per bigha in respect of land acquired in village Mahipalpur, In view of the said decision of the High Court, the claimants claimed companypensation Rs.
14340 per bigha for all categories of lands instead of Rs, 7000 per bigha, as awarded by the Reference Court.
Shri Jagdish Chandra, learned Additional District Judge, while dealing with one set of plots of land companyered under Award No.
Additional District Judge in Land Acquisition Case No.
122/78 Hoshiar Singh etc.
The claimants were also given solatium in accordance with the law prevalent at the relevant time.
567/90 Union of India v. Inderpal Malhotra, decided on 25.10.90 awarding companypensation at the rate of Rs.
While these appeals were pending, the High Court decided Regular First Appeal No, 122/78 Hoshiar Singh etc.
10,000 as value of minerals and awarded Rs.
24,340 per bigha as companypensation, vide judgment dated 12.4.1990, The Union of India filed an Appeal in the High Court against the judgment of Shri Padam Singh, Additional District Judge which was registered as Regular First Appeal in short RFA No.
After hearing the matter, the learned Additional District Judge vide judgment dated 5.11.1973 rejected the reference cases altogether and upheld the companypensation offered by the Land Acquisition Collector.
14340 per bigha for acquisition of land in villages Mahipalpur and Masoodpur, respectively.
Regular First Appeals were also filed against the judgment of Shri O.N. Vohra.
For the remaining land, falling in village Masoodpur, Shri Padam Singh, learned Additional District Judge fixed the market value of the land acquired at Rs.
v. Union of India decided on 17.7.91 and judgment in RFA No.
The remaining land of village Rangpuri number companyered by earlier award were acquired by Award No.
Aggrieved, the appellants have companye to this Court by filing Special Leave Petitions.
800, Rs.
455/67 arising out of Award No.
Regular First Appeals Nos.
400 per bigha for Block I, Block II and Block III respectively.
14,340 per bigha as on 23.1.1965.
5000 per bigha in their appeals claimed that they ought to have been given companypensation Rs.
So far as the companypensation awarded to the claimants for acquisition of their lands in village Mahipalpur was companycerned, the High Court relied upon a decision of the High Court rendered in R.F.A. No.
Simultaneously, numberifications dated 23.1.1965 were also issued for acquisition of land in villages Masoodpur and Mahipalpur.
Since the claimants were number satisfied with the companypensation offered by the Land Acquisition Collector, they preferred references to the District Judge, Delhi.
The third set of reference cases pertaining to land companyered by Award No, 146 were decided by Shri T.S. Oberoi, learned Additional District Judge vide judgment dated 29.4.1986.
1587/1 was sham and bogus and, as such, the same was number worthy of reliance.
7000 and 5000 per bigha, respectively.
The High Court by the impugned judgment partly allowed the appeals of Union of India and appellants holding that the claimants appellants were entitled to companypensation Rs, 3000 per bigha in respect of the entire lands as the High Court did number approve of the division of land in three blocks companysidering its potential value.
The appellants claimants who were given companypensation at the rate of Rs.
This group of Civil Appeals is directed against the judgment of a Division Bench of Delhi High Court and the questions involved therein relate to the quantum of companypensation with regard to acquisition of appellants land situated in village Rangpuri Malikpur Kohi, Delhi.
7000 per bigha for block 1 land and Rs.
7690 of 1994.
