Randhir & ORS v. State Of Haryana & ORS

RFA No.6111 of 2013 -1IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH RFA No.6111 of 2013 (O&M) Date of decision: 28.8.2015 Randhir and others ..... Appellants

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State of Haryana and others ......Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJESH BINDAL

Present:

Mr. Ajay Kumar Kansal, Advocate, Mr. Amit Kumar Jain, Advocate and Mr. Arvind Kumar Chauhan, Advocate, for the landowners. Mr. Arun Beniwal, Deputy Advocate General, Haryana. RAJESH BINDAL, J This order will dispose of a bunch of appeals bearing RFA Nos.6111 to 6117, 6985 of 2013, 7173 to 7175, 5460, 5461, 10356 of 2014, as common questions of law and facts are involved therein. The landowners are before this Court seeking enhancement of compensation for the acquired land.

Briefly, the facts of the case are that vide notification dated 24.8.2009, issued under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short, `the Act'), State of Haryana sought to acquire the land situated within the revenue estate of villages Malar, Bahadurgarh, Sheela Kheri and Jaipur Tehsil Safidon, District Jind, for construction of Malar Minor from RD 0 to 15996 tail on-taking at RD 36085 Jind Distributory in village Malar. Notification under Section 6 of the Act was issued on 28.12.2009. The Land Acquisition Collector (for short, `the Collector') vide different awards assessed compensation @ ` 8,00,000/- per acre for all the villages. Dissatisfied with the awards of the Collector, the landowners filed objections. On reference under Section 18 of the Act, the learned court below, vide different awards assessed the market value of the acquired land of all villages @ ` 10,00,000/- per acre. These awards have been impugned Sharmila Devi 2017.05.24 12:55 I attest to the accuracy and integrity of this document

RFA No.6111 of 2013 -2before this court by the landowners.

Learned counsel for the parties are agreed that claim made in the present set of appeals is squarely covered by the judgment of this Court in R.F.A. No. 4987 of 2013 -Wazir Singh and another vs. State of Haryana, decided on 12.11.2013, whereby, compensation for the land acquired vide same notification was assessed @ ` 11,58,000/- per acre. Since this Court had further enhanced the compensation for the land acquired vide same notification in Wazir Singh's case (supra), the appeals filed by the landowners are disposed of in the same terms. (RAJESH BINDAL) JUDGE 28.8.2015 sharmila Sharmila Devi 2017.05.24 12:55 I attest to the accuracy and integrity of this document