JUDGMENT :

HARKESH MANUJA J. 

Vide this common judgment, batch of total 19 connected Regular First Appeals are being decided as all have arisen out of the same award. The details of the connected cases are mentioned in the footnote of this judgment.

Since, Mr. Sameer Sachdeva, Advocate had already submitted his power of attorney-vakalatnama on behalf of the Punjab State Agriculture Marketing Board, he is requested to appear on its behalf.

1.2 For convenience, the facts are being taken from RFA-2391-2006 (O&M).

2. By way of present appeal, challenge has been laid to an Award dated 21.04.2005 passed by the Court of learned Additional District Judge, Bathinda (for short, “the Reference Court”), whereby, reference petition(s) preferred at the instance of landowner(s) invoking Section 18 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for brevity, “1894 Act”), were partly allowed.

3. Brief facts of the case are that some land owned by the appellant(s)-landowner(s), situated in the revenue estate of Village Maur Kalan, Tehsil Talwandi Sabo, District Bathinda, was acquired vide notifications dated 11.01.1999 and 12.08.1999, issued under Sections 4 & 6 respectively of the 1894 Act, for the public purpose, na