JUDGMENT :

HARKESH MANUJA, J. 

[1]. Vide this common order, the present appeals bearing RFA Nos.1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1889, 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 2259 and 3200 of 2002 (O&M) are being decided as all these appeals have arisen out of common acquisition and involve identical facts and questions of law. For the sake of brevity, facts are being taken from RFA No.1881 of 2002.

[2]. By way of present appeal, challenge has been laid to an Award dated 26.02.2002 passed by the learned Addl. District Judge, Hisar (hereinafter to be referred as the ‘Reference Court’).

[3]. Briefly stating, in the present case(s), 4.03 acres of land, which on demarcation was later found 3.94 acres, situated within the revenue estate of village Lohari Ragho, Tehsil Narnaund, District Hisar, was acquired vide Notifications dated 30.12.1996 and 19.08.1997 issued under Sections 4 & 6 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short the ‘1894 Act’) respectively, for the public purpose, namely “for construction of missing link road between Datta Lohari and Sisai Lohari road”. Award under Section 11 of the 1894 Act was passed by the Land Acquisition Collector (for short ‘the