JUDGMENT :

HARKESH MANUJA, J.

1. Vide this common judgment, batch of total 40 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-817-2016 (O&M).

2. By way of present appeal, challenge has been laid to an Award dated 27.08.2015 passed by the Court of learned Additional District Judge, Rewari (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 Village Nahar, Tehsil Kosli, District Rewari, was acquired vide notifications dated 10.03.2010 (published on 23.03.2010) and 21.05.2010 (published on 08.06.2010), issued under Sections 4 & 6 respectively of the 1894 Act. The total land under acquisition was 74 kanals 7 marlas. The acquisition was for the public purpose, namely, “for construction of Nahar Minor”. The Land Acquisition Collector (for short, “the LAC”) vi