( 1 ) ADMIT. Service of notice of admission is waived by Shri P. G. Desai, Government Pleader, S/shri L. R. Poojari and A. J. Desai, A. G. Ps.

( 2 ) UPON joint request and in view of the nature of dispute, which is very limited and which is also covered by various decisions, the entire group is ordered to be heard today.

( 3 ) IN this group of 43 appeals, common questions are involved. Upon joint request the entire group, after hearing Shri Amin, learned Advocate and the learned government Pleader, is being disposed of by this common judgment.

( 4 ) BY invoking the provisions of S. 54 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (hereinafter referred to as "the Act" for brevity), the appellants, who are the original land owners and claimants, have challenged the common judgment recorded on 10-9-1995 by the District Court, Ahmedabad (Rural) at Mirzapur in Land Acquisition case Nos. 601 to 642 of 1989 and Land Acquisition Case No. 203 of 1990.

( 5 ) THE award under S. 18 of the Act allowed the references partly. The reference Court in its common judgment has directed the respondents-original opponents to pay the claimants an additional amount of compensation at the rate of Rs. 13