JUDGMENT :

HARKESH MANUJA J. 

1. Vide this common judgment, batch of total 22 connected Regular First Appeals are being decided as all have arisen out of the same award. The details of the connected cases are given at the bottom of the judgment.

1.2 For convenience, the facts are being taken from RFA-3494-2011 (O&M).

2. By way of present appeal, challenge has been laid to an Award dated 25.11.2010 passed by the Court of learned Additional District Judge, Hoshiarpur (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 dismissed. 3. Brief facts of the case are that some land owned by the landowner(s), situated in the two different revenue estates of Villages Sood (293 kanals 19 marlas) and Bararowal (186 kanals 4 marlas), Tehsil Dasuya, District Hoshiarpur, was acquired vide notifications dated 20.09.2000 and 27.07.2001, issued under Sections 4 & 6 respectively of the 1894 Act, for the public purpose, namely, for “construction of Mukerian Hydel Channel Project, Stage-II, Part-2, Talwara”. The Land Acquisition Collector (for brevity, “LAC”) vide Awa