JUDGMENT :

G.S. Sandhawalia, J.

The present judgment shall dispose of 939 appeals filed under Section 54 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short 'the Act'), out of which 809 are filed by the landowners and 130 filed by the State alongwith 4 cross-objections. The three notifications under Section 4 of the Act in question are dated 01.05.2006, 07.02.2008 and 14.08.2008. Vide the first notification the land was acquired for development and utilisation thereof as residential and commercial areas in Sectors 75 and 80, Faridabad. Thereafter, vide second notification the land was acquired for development of residential and commercial areas in Sectors 76, 77 and 78, Faridabad and vide third notification the land was acquired for the Master Plan Roads of Sector 75 to 89, Faridabad.

2. It is pertinent to mention that the matters have come on remand from the Apex Court, after the matters had been decided by a Coordinate Bench of this Court on 16.09.2015 in 'Rampal and others Vs. Land Acquisition Collector and another, (2016) 1 RCR(Civil) 494'. The reason for remand primarily was that