JUDGMENT :

HARKESH MANUJA, J. 

1. Vide this common judgment, a batch of total 28 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.

1.2 For convenience, the facts are being taken from RFA-3085-2003 (O&M).

2. By way of present appeal, challenge has been laid to an Award dated 02.04.2003 passed by the Court of learned Additional District Judge, Rewari (for short, “the Reference Court”), whereby, reference petition preferred at the instance of landowner(s) invoking Section 18 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for brevity, “1894 Act”), was partly allowed.

3. Brief facts of the case are that some land owned by the landowner(s), situated in the revenue estate of Village Naya Gaon, Tehsil Kosli, District Rewari, was acquired vide notifications dated 08.07.1998 and 05.03.1999, issued under Sections 4 & 6 respectively of the 1894 Act, for the public purpose, namely, “for construction of Naya Gaon Minor for Irrigation Department”. The total land under acquisition was 3.16 acre. The Land Acquisition Collector (for short, “the LAC”) vide its Award dated 08.05.2000, besides gr