Swatanter Kumar, C.J.:

1. First Appeal No. 841 of 2005 has been preferred by the State against the judgment and award dated 30th September, 2000 passed by the Reference Court in LAR No. 88 of 1990 titled as Babu Rama Gandal vs. The Special Land Acquisition Officer No.8. The State has filed Appeals in each of the references as the Reference Court had disposed of 24 References vide the impugned judgment. It needs to be noticed at the very outset that in the impugned judgment, the Reference court did not discuss and, in fact, the parties had also not led much evidence except mainly relying and tendering the judgment of another reference court, exhibit-33. The judgment passed by the Reference Court related to acquisition of lands under the same notification from the same village. The judgment relied upon was passed by the Reference Court in LAR No. 89 of 1990 decided on 7th February, 1998. In that case, number of sale instances were tendered in evidence and parties had also led oral evidence. LAR No. 89/90 was also challenged by the State in First Appeal No. 240 of 2000. We had, therefore, directed First Appeal No. 240 of 2000 which was listed before the single