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2011 DIGILAW 333 (PNJ)

State of Haryana v. Ram Kishan (deceased) through LRs

2011-01-27

RAJESH BINDAL

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JUDGMENT Mr. Rajesh Bindal J.: - The landowners have approached this court by filing the crossobjections seeking enhancement of compensation for the acquired land. 2. Briefly, the facts are that vide notification dated 1.2.1972, issued under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short, ‘the Act’), State of Haryana acquired land measuring 0.79 acres situated in village Bhaeron-ki-sair, Tehsil Kalka, District Ambala, for Sewarage Scheme Kalka. The Land Acquisition Collector (for short, ‘the Collector’) vide award dated 26.11.1975, assessed the compensation of acquired land @ ‘ 8,640.50 per acre. Dissatisfied with the award of the Collector, the land owners filed objections. On reference under Section 18 of the Act, the learned court below assessed the market value of the acquired land @ ‘ 11,359.50 per acre. It is this award which is impugned by the landowners by filing the cross-objections in the appeal filed by the State. 3. Learned counsel for the State submitted that the main appeal was disposed of on 14.9.1988 in terms of detailed judgment of even date in RFA No. 75 of 1983 – State of Haryana vs Krishan Lal. However, inadvertently the cross-objections filed by the landowners in the appeal remained pending. 4. In Krishan Lal’s case (supra), this court had upheld the award of the learned court below which is impugned in the present crossobjections. Apparently there is no merit in the cross-objections filed by the landowners, however, as learned counsel for the landowners is not available, the same are dismissed in default. -----------0.K.B.0------------