In the High Court of Punjab & Haryana at Chandigarh
R. F. A No. 4184 of 2001 (O&M)
Sahib Singh ... Appellant
vs
The State of Haryana and others .... Respondents
Coram: Hon'ble Mr. Justice Rajesh Bindal Present: Mr. Adarsh Jain, Advocate, for the appellant.
Mr. Navneet Singh, Assistant Advocate General, Haryana.
Rajesh Bindal J.
The landowner is in appeal before this court for enhancement of
compensation for the acquisition of land.
Briefly, the facts are that vide notification dated 8.5.1995, issued
under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short, ‘the Act’), the State
of Haryana acquired land in Village Malerna, Tehsil Ballabgarh, District
Faridabad, for development and utilisation of land as Transport Communication
and commercial, residential and institutional for Sector-62, Faridabad. The Land
Acquisition Collector (for short, “the Collector”) assessed the market value of the
land at Rs. 1,50,000/- per acre. Dissatisfied with the award of the Land
Acquisition Collector, the landowners/claimants filed objections. On reference
under Section 18 of the Act, the learned court below vide award dated 19.3.2001,
determined the market value of the acquired land at Rs. 400/- per square yard.
Learned counsel for the appellant submitted that the claim of the
appellant in the present appeal is squarely covered by the judgment of this court in
R.F.A. No. 2501 of 2001 – Ved Pal and others vs State of Haryana and others,
decided on 3.5.2006, whereby the compensation payable for acquisition of land for
Village Malerna, for Sectors-62, Faridabad, was enhanced to Rs. 450/- per square
yard.
Learned Assistant Advocate General, Haryana, does not dispute this
factual position.
For the detailed reasons recorded in Ved Pal’s case (supra), the
appeal is allowed in the same terms.
17.12.2008 ( Rajesh Bindal) vs. Judge