JUDGMENT

1. Delay condoned. Permission to file SLP is granted in SLP (C) No.8209 of 2008. Leave granted in all the special leave petitions.

2. These appeals, most of which have been filed by Haryana State Industrial Development Corporation (for short "the Corporation") and some have been filed by the landowners, are directed against the judgments of the Punjab and Haryana High Court whereby market value of the land acquired for setting up an industrial model township at Manesar has been enhanced and the Corporation has been directed to pay higher compensation to the e landowners. While the Corporation is aggrieved by fixation of higher market value by the High Court and has prayed for reducing the same, the landowners have prayed for further enhancement of the compensation.

3. CAs Nos. 6553, 6757, 6831 and 6853 of 2009 and the appeals arising out of SLPs (C) Nos. 16283-84 of 2010 are directed against the orders passed by the High Court dismissing the regular first appeals of the landowners as barred by time.

4. For the sake of convenient reference, the appeals have been divided into three groups. The first group comprises of the appeals preferred by the Corporation and the landowners