Court of the District Judge which received References under Section 18 of the Act broadly categorised the acquired parcels of lands into four categories and determined the market value of lands falling in each such category, thus Chahi at the rate of Rs.
Learned Judges of the High Court deciding the appeal have adverted to in their judgment, to RFA No.
18,750 per acre Chahi muster at the rate of Rs.
We shall first deal with SLP C Nos.
181 of 1970 and States Letters Patent Appeal filed against that judgment having been dismissed by the Division Bench without disturbing the amounts of companypensation awarded by the learned Single Judge.
18,750 an acre Chahi muster at the rate of Rs.
By its companymon judgment, the High Court granted higher amounts of companypensation for the acquired lands of the appellants and the cross objectors, though it fell short of the amounts of higher companypensation sought by them.
As they were number satisfied with the amounts of companypensation awarded for their acquired lands by the Court of District Judge at Chandigarh, on references received by it under Section 18 of the Act, grant of a higher companypensation was sought by them from the High Court.
Thereafter, a reference is made to 14 Regular First Appeals decided by the same Division Bench earlier on March 7, 1979 where they had determined the market value of the lands of Nizampur Burail at the rates determined by the learned Single Judge in the appeals decided by him.
These Special Leave Petitions are number presented by them seeking grant of leave of this Court to appeal against the judgment of the High Court, so as to obtain from this Court higher amounts of companypensation for their acquired lands.
Learned Judges have also adverted to in their judgment to another judgment of the same learned Single Judge rendered in RFA No.
18,750 per acre, Chahi muster land at Rs.
Learned Single Judge who decided that appeal, it is stated, determined the market value of Chahi land at Rs.
Parcels of lands of the appellants and the cross objectors situated in Badheri, Kajheri, Palsaura, Nizampur Burail and Burail were proposed for acquisition for the development of new sectors to be added to the city of Chandigarh, by Notification under Section 4 1 of the Act published in the local Gazette on two dates, to wit, July 28, 1970 and December 16, 1970.
As becomes apparent from the judgment of the High Court, the parties before it did number dispute that the acquired lands situated in various villages fell in the same alignment to the West of Chandigarh City and there was numbermaterial increase in the prices of the acquired lands between July 28, 1970 and December 16, 1970, the dates on which the two sets of lands, had been numberified for acquisition.
Barani and Bagh barani at the rate of Rs.
12,000 per acre, and that determination of the market value of the lands had resulted in an enhancement of companypensation payable to the claimants companycerned there.
5,000 an acre.
181 of 1970 by which a learned Single Judge of the same Court had determined the market value of a land in the village Burail, acquired along with the lands with the market value of which they were companycerned.
At other types and quality of land at the rate of Rs.
200 of 1973 in which he awarded for the lands of Kajheri village acquired pursuant to the Notifications under companysideration and for the same purpose, at the very rates and on the same categorisation, as had been done in RFA No.
Chair mumkin, bara, maken chah, tubewell, huts, pirh and rasta area at the rate of Rs.
A Division Bench of the High Court which companysidered the appeals and cross objections including the appeals and cross objections of the petitioners who were the appellants and cross objectors before it, reduced the categories of their acquired lands into three and determined the market value of lands falling in each such category, thus Chahi at the rate of Rs.
12,000 per acre.
10,000 an acre.
7368 7376, 7379 7390, 7393 and 7399 of 1980 directed against one of the companymon judgments of the High Court as the decision in them will suffice for disposal of the remaining Special Leave Petitions where companymon questions arise for companysideration.
12,500 per acre and all other types of land at the rate of Rs.
12,500 per acre.
12,500 an acre.
Venkatachala, J. These Special Leave Petitions being those directed against judgments of one and the same Division Bench of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana by which market value of lands of the petitioners acquired under the provisions of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 for short the Act has been determined on companymon materials and companysiderations, they companyld be disposed of by this companymon judgment.
