IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision: March 16, 2026 VIJAY KUMAR @ VIJAY SHARMA AND ORS. ...Petitioners Versus STATE OF PUNJAB AND OTHERS .....Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARKESH MANUJA Present: Mr. R.S. Manhas, Advocate for the petitioners.

Mr. Gunjan Mehta, Addl. A.G. Punjab.

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HARKESH MANUJA, J. (ORAL)

By way of present writ petition, challenge has been laid to the order dated 24.08.2021 passed by the Sub Divisional Magistrate-cum- Land Acquisition Collector, RSD and Shahpurkandi Dam Project, Shahpurkandi Township, whereby Reference preferred at the instance of the petitioners/landowners having invoked Section 28-A of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short "the 1894 Act') was dismissed.

[2]. Briefly stating, in the present case, some land owned by the petitioners/landowners situated within the revenue estate of village Kot Tikka Majra, Tehsil Dhar Kalan, Distt. Gurdaspur, came to be acquired vide Notifications dated 16.06.1994 and 28.10.1994 issued under Sections 4 & 6 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 respectively for the public purpose namely for construction of Shahpurkandi Dam Project. The Award under Section 11 of the 1894 Act w