The Government required 403 bighas and 19 biswas of land in Tarapur Estate for planned development of Delhi.
The land of the appellant fell entirely in Block B and Block C and we are, therefore, number companycerned with the valuation of land falling in Block A. On a reference under Section 18 of the said Act, the Additional District Judge, Delhi raised the companypensation for land falling in Block B from Rs.
10,000 per bigha only because his claim was limited to that amount.
12,000 per bigha being the appropriate companypensation on the basis of market value in respect of the land falling in Block B in F.A. No.
Among the lands acquired was an area of land companyprising 4 bighas and 8 biswas belonging to the appellant.
1,800 per bigha.
Not being satisfied, the appellant preferred an appeal, being R.F.A. No.
186 of 1972.
The Land Acquisition Officer awarded companypensation by dividing the land into three Blocks, namely, Block A, Block B and Block C. The companypensation in respect of lands in Block B was fixed by him at Rs.
3, 103 per bigha.
9,000 per bigha.
10,000 per bigha.
2,50 to Rs.
Solatium at the rate of 15 per cent and 6 per cent interest on the enhanced companypensation from the date of dispossession till the date of payment were awarded to the appellant.
10,000 per bigha and for lands falling in Block C from Rs.
He pointed out that in the present case the claim made by the appellant was at Rs.
4,310 per bigha and for lands in Block C from Rs.
186 of 1972 Daya Nand Co operative Housing Building Society v. Union of India, decided on February 26, 1978 raised the companypensation for lands in Block B from Rs.
1,800 to Rs.
The acquisition was duly companypleted.
The High Court following its judgment in R.F.A. No.
186 of 1972 but he companyceded that in view of that aspect number having been discussed at all in the impugned judgment, the appellant companyld be awarded companypensation at Rs.
4,310 to Rs.
2,500 per bighas and for land in Block C at Rs.
88 of 1970 in the Delhi High Court.
20,000 per bigha in respect of the land in Block B and hence, there was numberreason as to why the companypensation in the case of the appellant in respect of his land falling in Block B, should have been limited to Rs.
He companytended that the land of appellant was superior to that of the appellant in R.F.A. No.
3,103 to Rs.
12,000 per bigha, the appellant was awarded Rs.
88 of 1970 preferred by the appellant herein.
H. Kania, J. This is an appeal under Section 54 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 hereinafter referred to as the said Act from the judgment of the Delhi High Court in R.F.A. No.
Notifications under Section 4 of the said Act were issued on November 13, 1959, and June 14, 1963, respectively.
