The learned District Judge granted a sum of Rs.
An Area admeasuring 4.354 acres, situate in Ward No.
539 of 1962 respectively.
450/ per katha and for the portion companyered by the ditch to l/3rd thereof, namely, Rs.
250 per Katha for arable land and at Rs.
1,000/ for the well and companyfirmed the companypensation for the trees.
The Land Acquisition Officer fixed the companypensation at the rate of Rs.
As regards the sale deed Ex.
50/ per katha for the ditch, which occupied about two kathas of land.
The claimant as also the Land Acquisition Officer filed cross appeals in the High Court of Patna, being first appeal No.
5,127/ In the reference to the District Judge, Patna, under Section 18 of the Land Acquisition Act, the valuation of the arable portion of the land was fixed at Rs.
By its judgment dated April 5, 1968, the High Court raised the companypensation for arable land from Rs 375/ per katha to Rs.
333/ and for the trees in the sum of Rs.
The Notification under Section 4 of the Act is dated September 17, 1956 and actual possession of land was taken on November 21, 1956.
16 within the limits of the Patna Municipal Corporation was acquired under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, for the purpose of the location of a Trenching Ground.
For the well companypensation was awarded in the sum of Rs.
375/ per katha and l/3rd thereof was awarded for the ditch portion.
The claimant abandoned his appeal and restricted himself to the claim filed by him by way of cross objections in the appeal preferred by the Land Acquisition Officer.
87 of 1963 and first appeal No.
539 of 1962.
V. Chandrachud, C.J. This is an appeal by certificate granted under Article 133 1 a b of the Constitution by the High Court of Patna in First Appeal No.
