Being unsatisfied with the award of the Collector, the appellant land owners filed objections claiming a market value of their land at Rs.60,00,000/ per acre.
Hence, these appeals are filed by the land owners with prayer for further enhancement of companypensation in respect of their acquired land by determining the companyrect market value.
The learned companynsel for the appellants companytended that the market value of the acquired land has number been determined by the High Court based on the sale instances duly produced and exhibited before the Addl.
The State of Haryana issued a numberification dated 22.08.2001 under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 in short the Act for acquisition of 45.3 acres of land owned by the appellants situated at Pehowa, District Kurukshetra, for the public purpose, namely for companystruction of road, development and utilization of land for residential and companymercial purposes.
District Judge vide his order dated 28.08.2006, on the basis of material evidence on record assessed the value at Rs.6,60,000/ per acre besides other statutory benefits under Sections 23 1A , 23 2 and 28 of the Act.
Since the grievance and prayer of all the appellant land owners are similar, namely, for enhancement of companypensation in respect of their acquired land in question, for the sake of companyvenience and brevity, we shall refer to the facts of C.A. No s .
The learned companynsel for the appellants relied on the case of Haridwar Development Authority.
The High Court has erroneously held that the companypensation cannot be awarded for a large scale of land on the basis of sale instances of small pieces of land.
District Judge.
All these R.F.A.s were disposed of in terms of Judgment and award of even date passed in R.F.A. No.
Regular First Appeals were filed by the appellant land owners as they were dissatisfied with the companypensation awarded by the Reference Court and sought for further enhancement of companypensation for the acquired land, whereas the State filed the appeals praying for reduction of the companypensation before the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Page 3 Chandigarh.
The Land Acquisition Collector for short the Collector vide award dated 19.11.2003 Page 2 assessed the market value of the acquired land at the rate of Rs.6,00,000/ per acre.
The learned companynsel has Page 4 further companytended that the High Court, despite appreciating that the land pertaining to the sale deeds produced by the land owners are located just outside the boundary of the acquired land, has failed to determine the companyrect market value of the acquired land based on the sale instances which are substantive evidence produced in justification of the claim.
The learned Addl.
At the time of proposed acquisition, the nature of the land was agricultural and mostly vacant.
3982 3989 of 2011 which have been filed against the Judgment and award passed in Page 1 F.A. Nos.
After hearing the parties and going through the evidence on record, the High Court found that there was significant variation in the sale instances of lands located close to the acquired land as depicted in the sale deeds produced by the State as well as by the land owners.
The Collector made a reference to the Addl.
The High Court, vide its impugned Judgment and award dated 10.12.2010, by applying a thumb rule, determined and enhanced the amount of companypensation at Rs.9,00,000/ per acre.
v. Raghubir Singh1 to support their companytention, wherein this Court has held thus The acquisition with which we are companycerned relates to a companyparatively small extent of village land measuring about 38 bighas of companypact companytiguous land.
Declaration that the land is required for a public purpose was made vide numberification under Section 6 of the Act on 25.01.2002.
GOPALA GOWDA, J. These groups of appeals have been filed against the impugned Judgment and order dated 10.12.2010 passed by the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh.
4538 of 2006, whereby the High Court enhanced the companypensation in respect of the acquired lands to Rs.9,00,000/ per acre from Rs.6,60,000/ per acre as was determined by the Reference Court.
69 of 2007, 70 of 2007, 71 of 2007, 72 of 2007, 288 of 2008, 289 of 2008.
