( 1 ) ALL these appeals are filed by the appellant, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation limited, Mehsana by resorting to section 54 of the Land Acquisition Act read with section 96 of the Civil Procedure Code. Since common points of law and facts are involved in all these appeals, with the consent of parties, these appeals are disposed of by this common judgment.

( 2 ) BY filing these appeals, the appellant has challenged the judgment and order passed by the Reference Court in Land acquisition References No. 3134 of 2003 to no. 3139 of 2003. The learned Judge of the reference Court treated L. A. R. No. 3138/03 as the main case and common evidence is lead in the aforesaid References.

( 3 ) ON behalf of the ONGC, certain agricultural lands of the claimants were temporarily acquired for its project. Somewhere in 1993, the General Manager of ONGC, Mehsana Project sent a proposal to the Government for acquisition of the lands in question for a temporary period under section 35 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1954 [hereinafter referred to as the Act]. In land Acquisition Cases No. 65/93 and others, special Land Acquisition Officer, Mehsana awarded Rs. 1. 10 per sq. mtr. The c