37.50 at the rate of Rs.
Deducting land revenue and bad debts he found that the net annual income was Rs.
the High Court did on the footing that the income from the land was represented by the rent paid by the tenants.
18 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, the District Judge increased the valuation to Rs.
500 per acre for the rain fed wet lands.
25 per Dalla, by capitalising the rent by 20 years, the companypensation would companye to Rs.
25 per palla.
Appeals by certificate from the judgment and Award dated 15th September 1966 of the Mysore High Court at Bangalore in Misc.
600 per acre for the tank fed, i.e., perennially irrigated wet lands, and Rs.
in addition, awarded interest at 6 per annum on the amount of companypensation awarded by it.
1250 per acre for all the lands, irrespective of whether they were tank fed or rain fed lands or whether they were self cultivated or cultivated by tenants.
But what he did was to take the whole of the net income arising from the lands instead of capita lising, only the rent payable to the appellants by the tenants of some of, the lands.
1353 of 1957 were number cultivated by any tenant and were in fact under the Khatedars personal cultivation and that therefore companypensation in regard to them companyld number be fixed by capitalising the annual rent only.
in respect of some of the lands, that such rent on an average came to 2 1/2 pallas of paddy and that at the rate of Rs.
The District Judge also adopted the method of valuation by capitalising the income by 20 years.
1250 an acre.
199 to 201 of 1963.
The Special Land Acquisition Officer classified these lands into rain fed and tank fed lands, i.e. one crop and two crop lands, and adopting the method of valuation of capitalising the annual rent paid to the appellants fixed Rs.
In appeals filed by the Acquisition Officer against the awards by the District Judge, the, High Court of Mysore reduced the companypensation to Rs.
On a reference by the appellants under sec.
30 per acre.
The areas so acquired were all wet lands and measured 29 acres and 37 guntas, 3.32 acres and 8.20 acres respectively.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Civil Appeal Nos.
In modifying the District Judges award and reducing the rate, of companypensation to Rs.
2500 per acre for tank fed lands and Rs.
The High Court.,
He arrived at these figures on, a finding that the average annual rent in respect of these lands was 1 1/2 pallas of paddy per acre which meant that the gross rent was Rs.
First Appeals Nos.
1250 an acre.
1353 to 1355 of 1967.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by SHELAT, J. These three appeals, by certificate, are by three Khatedars, whose lands were acquired for the submersion area of the Linganmakki reservoir in Mysore State.
2000 per acre for the rain fed lands.
B. Datar, for the appellants.
Veerappa, for the respondent.
