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IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH
HARKESH MANUJA
Amar Chand – Appellant
Versus
State of Haryana – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
HARKESH MANUJA, J.
Vide this common order, two Regular First Appeals, details of which are given in the head note of this judgment, are being decided as both have arisen out of common acquisition/Award involving common facts and question of law. For the sake of brevity, facts are being taken from RFA No.3810-1998.
2. By way of filing the present appeal(s) challenge has been laid to the decision dated 27.03.1998 passed by the learned Additional District Judge, Faridabad (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Reference Court’).
3. Briefly stating, 20.82 acres of land, situated within the revenue estate of Village Chandhat, Tehsil Palwal, District Faridabad, was acquired by the Government of Haryana vide notifications dated 22.05.1979 (published on 29.05.1979) and 18.09.1979 (published on 19.09.1979), issued under Sections 4 and 6 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, for short ‘the Act’ respectively, for public purpose, namely, ‘for the construction of Delhi Mathura Road to High Level Bridge over River Yamuna near Village Rahipur’. The Land Acquisition Collector (for short ‘the LAC’) vide award 27.02.1980 assessed market value in respect of the acquired land @ Rs.12,000/- per acre for
Market value for land acquisition must be assessed based on comparable sales proximate to the acquisition date, reflecting fair compensation principles.
(1) Acquisition of land – When large extent of lands are acquired and if sale exemplar, also for large extent is available on record it would be safer to rely on same if they are comparable transacti....
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