JUDGMENT

Anil Kshetarpal, J. - INTRODUCTION

1.1 By this judgment, a batch of regular first appeals (details whereof are at the foot of the judgment) filed under Section 54 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (hereinafter referred to as the 1894 Act) with respect to the adjoining parcels of the acquired land, located in the villages, namely Jandli, Kanwali, Kanwala, Saunda and Sarai Mehdood, shall stand disposed of. Although, the land has been acquired by two separate notifications, however, keeping in view the fact that both the acquisitions are with respect to the adjoining pieces of the land in the same area, the date of notification under Section 4 of the 1894 Act is in the same year, the assessment of the market value by the Land Acquisition Officer (hereinafter referred to as the LAC) as well the award passed by the Reference Court (hereinafter referred to as the RC) is almost identical, the evidence led by the landowners is more or less the same and the learned counsel representing the parties are not only common, but even their arguments, in the concerned cases, are the same, there