1. The petitioners-Zamindaran of Village Chak Balotrian of Tehsil Samba had approached this Court in the year 1998 by their Writ Petition OWP No. 1205/98 seeking compensation for their land, which was taken possession of by the State-respondents in the year 1952-53 for construction of Ramgarh- Khour road. Allowing the Writ Petition, a direction was issued to the respondents to treat the petitioners' Writ Petition a Representation for taking appropriate decision thereon within a period of three months.

2. The petitioners' Claim to compensation was rejected on the grounds that their predecessors-in-interest had voluntarily donated the land and in view of the provisions of Rule 24-A of the Rules framed under the State Land Acquisition Act, the land owners were not entitled to compensation.

3. Aggrieved by the rejection of their Claim by the Executive Engineer PWD (R & B) Construction Division, Jammu, the petitioners have approached this Court again seeking compensation for their land.

4. During the course of consideration of the Petition, learned Advocate General appearing for the State-respondents stated that the State-respondents may not be averse to Deputy Commissioner's re-examining

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