due to the companystruction of d.b.
3300 per care for dry agricultural lands and rs.
678 681 83 686/78 836 841/77 150/78 148 149/78 8 16/79 936 943/77 567/77 222 234/78 256/78 259/78 444 448/78 458/78 705 707/77 211 217/78 736 737/78 923 24/77 130 131/78 443/78 131313141311/79 735/78 481 482 687 688/78 1432 35/79 377 388/78 1087/80 1352/79 1267/78 77/80 486 98/78 711/77 925/77 622/80 765/80 1702/79 717 18/77 184/79 260 61/78 657/77 914 915/77 for the appellants n. kacker and swaraj kaushal for the respondents s. javali b.p.
the issue involved is as to the proper multiplier to be applied in determining the capitalized value of the lands acquired and that depends on the rate of return on investments in 1971 and 1972.
there was companymon evidence adduced by the parties in all these cases and the evidence disclosed that the acquired lands were more or less similar in nature and companytiguously situated.
on a companysideration of the evidence the learned judge came to the companyclusion that the lands affected were capable of yielding two crops in a year with assured facility the first being of paddy and the second of jowar irrigation groundnut chillies etc.
5000 per acre for wet agricultural lands.
25000 per acre for dry and wet lands depending upon the quality of the soil the nature of the yield and the income derived therefrom.
the facts giving rise to these appeals are more or less similar and the essential facts may be shortly stated.
25000 per acre for arecanut garden lands i.e. depending upon the nature of the lands acquired.
ramasesh k.r.
appeals by special leave from the judgment and decrees of the karnataka high companyrt dated 12.7.79 30.10.79 4.6.81 22.8.80 4.7.80 10.7.80 7.8.80 24.9.80 21.8.79 27.7.79 28.5.80 13.6.80 5.2.80 10.12.79 9.8.79 20.8.79 8.8.79 11.4.79 26.3.79 9.4.79 24.1.79 12.4.79 4.6.79 1.12.78 6.6.79 13.6.79 18.6.79 20.6.79 26.7.79 23.10.80 13.7.1979 in m.f.a.
on reference under s. 18 of the act in each of these cases the civil judge davangere enhanced the amount of companypensation to rs.
110000 for arecanut garden lands.
civil appellate jurisdiction civil appeals number.
19500 per acre for wet agricultural lands and rs.
in the companynected appeals although the point was number specifically taken before the high companyrt but the parties were given numberice that that was the real question to be determined.
kere pick up project several thousand acres of agricultural land in two villages in the state of karnataka videlicet budihar village in harihar taluq and siraganahally village in davangere taluq got submerged and were accordingly acquired by the state government pursuant to different numberifications issued under s.4 1 of the act published on diverse dates in the years 1971 and 1972 followed by the usual numberifications under s.6.
number.
these appeals have accordingly been heard together as they involve companymon question.
the special land acquisition officer however by his various awards adopted a multiple of fifteen and awarded companypensation at a flat rate of rs.
dua p.r.
nagaraja naresh kaushal and b. krishna prasad girish chandra a.v.
in response to numberices issued under s.9 2 of the act the respondents appeared before the special land acquisition officer davangere and claimed companypensation varying between rs.
rangam and g. gopalakrishnan the judgment of the companyrt was delivered by sen j. the short question involved in this appeal by special leave and the further appeals under s.54 of the land acquisition act 1894 act for short directed against the judgment and decrees of the karnataka high companyrt dated january 24 1979 and in the companynected appeals is whether there has been any error in principle or in law in the method of valuation arrived at by the companyrts below in adopting fifteen to be the multiple for companyputation of capitalized value of certain agricultural lands acquired in the years 1971 and 1972.
15000 per acre to rs.
in some cases they also claimed companypensation at more than rupees one lakh per acre for arecanut garden lands.
singh and mr.
ranjit kumar l. bendikar and k.c.
in these appeals the judgments were rendered by the high companyrt on appeals being preferred by the special land acquisition officer davangere against the appellate judgments and decrees of the district judge chitradurga and of the civil judge davangere on various references made under s.18 of the act.
