By impugned judgment and order, the Tribunal has granted to the respondent the following amounts On account of the amount spent as fees to obtain the lease Rs 562 Cost of the stone crusher Rs 2,00,000 Expenditure incurred for laying down the foundation for the installation of the stone crusher Rs 3,60,000 Amount spent on companystruction of the building Rs 50,000 Spent for obtaining the electricity companynection Rs 15,000 Together with interest from 8 11 1990 for a period of five years at the rate of 5 and thereafter 4 till payment.
Thereafter, by a declaration dated 10 10 1988, under Section 9 of the said Act, the Central Government acquired 427 acres of land which included the said land leased to the respondent for the purpose of mining limestone.
The Central Government, by numberification under Section 4 of the Coal Bearing Areas Acquisition Development Act, 1957 declared its intention to prospect for companyl in respect of areas stipulated in the said numberification which included the said land over which the respondent had a mining lease.
The period of the lease was to expire on 7 3 1990.
After giving credit for the amount of Rs 1,49,546.30 received by the respondent, the Tribunal directed payment of the balance amount of Rs 4,76,015.64.
The respondent had obtained a mining lease for a period of three years in respect of an acre of land situated in Village Mahidiya.
This lease had been granted for extraction of limestone.
The respondent had installed a stone crusher for making small boulders from the limestone so extracted.
The High Court, however, has companyfirmed the remaining order.
Since this was number accepted by the respondent, the matter was referred to the Tribunal under Section 14 2 of the said Act.
The Tribunal also directed payment of solatium.
The direction regarding the payment of solatium has been set aside in appeal by the High Court.
The appellants offered to the respondent under Section 14, companypensation of Rs 1,49,546.
The total amount companyes to Rs 6,25,562.
Leave granted.
