JUDGMENT :

1. The appeal has been preferred against judgment and decree dated 14.03.2014 passed by the learned District Judge, Poonch wherein the learned trial court decreed the three suits by clubbing them together and awarded compensation in each case as mentioned in the judgment in favour of the plaintiff.

2. The File No. 31/Civil titled ‘Mohd. Asif v. Union of India and another’, File No. 32/Civil titled ‘Imran Khan v. Union of India and another’ and File No. 33/Civil titled “Zamir Ahmad and another v. Union of India and another’ were disposed of by the trial court by the common judgment. The judgment and decree passed in the aforesaid suits stand challenged by the appellants herein by three separate appeals which are clubbed together for disposal, the same having arisen out of the common judgment passed by the trial court.

3. It is suffice to mention herein that the applications in all the aforesaid cases under Order 37 CPC were filed and allowed by the trial court and the plaintiffs in those suits were declared as indigent persons and permitted to sue the respondents as pauper.

4. The judgment and decree passed by the trial court in the aforesaid suits is challenged on the ground