JUDGEMENT
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(1.)Leave granted. All these appeals arise out of the common and identical events whereby lands of the Appellants were acquired by the Government of Haryana under the provisions of Land Acquisition Act. The Appellants are claiming enhanced compensation on the basis of judgment of the Division Bench of the High Court in the same fact situation. Therefore, these appeals are heard and decided by this common order for the sake of convenience. However, we shall take the facts from Civil Appeal Nos. 6599-6601/2014.
(2.)The Government of Haryana sought to acquire 132.06 acres of land vide notification dated 22.8.1988 Under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (hereinafter referred to as the Act). Thereafter, declaration Under Section 6 of the Act was issued and award was passed on 30.3.1990. The Land Acquisition Collector assessed the compensation for the Chahi land @ Rs. 3,50,000/- per acre, regarding Gair Mumkin etc. Compensation was assessed @ Rs. 1,50,000/- per acre. Applications were moved by the land owners/appellants herein Under Section 18 of the Act for enhancement of compensation. Vide award dated 14.1.1992, the Additional District Judge awarded compensation at the rate of Rs. 101/- per square yard for the entire land.
(3.)The Appellants were not satisfied and they filed Regular First Appeal before the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh. The State also filed appeals against the enhancement of compensation by the Court below. All these appeals came up for consideration before the learned Single Judge of the High Court and vide common judgment dated 24.12.1993, passed in R.F.A. No. 1370 of 1992 (Krishan Lal v. State of Haryana and Anr.), the High Court dismissed all the appeals filed by the land owners and also the State of Haryana.