JUDGMENT :

HARKESH MANUJA, J. 

1. Vide this common judgment, batch of total 34 connected Regular First Appeals are being decided as all have arisen out of the same award. The details of the connected cases are given in the footnote of the judgment.

1.2 For convenience, the facts are being taken from RFA-4493-2009 (O&M).

2. By way of present appeal, challenge has been laid to an Award dated 01.04.2009 passed by the Court of learned Additional District Judge, Hisar (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 accepted.

3. Brief facts of the case are that some land owned by the landowner(s), situated in the revenue estate of villages Dhani Gujran and Dhani Thakria, Tehsil Hansi, the then District Hisar, was acquired vide notifications dated 23.04.2002 and 21.06.2002, issued under Sections 4 & 6 respectively of the 1894 Act. The total land under acquisition was 14.05 acre. The acquisition was for the public purpose, namely, “for construction of Depal Sub Minor”. The Land Acquisition Collector (for short, “the LAC”) vide its Award No.LA/