IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Decided on:-01.12.2025 Haryana State Industrial Development Corp.

(now HSIIDC) ....Appellant..

vs.

Yudhbir Singh and others ....Respondents.

CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARKESH MANUJA Present: Mr. Pritam Singh Saini, Advocate for the appellant-HSIIDC.

Mr. Ashwani Bakshi, Advocate for the respondents-landowners.

Mr. Abhinash Jain, DAG, Haryana.

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HARKESH MANUJA J. (Oral)

1. This common judgment of mine shall dispose of the batch of total 16 Regular First Appeals, details whereof are given at the foot of the judgment, as they all involve common question of law and facts.

1.1 For convenience, the facts are being taken from RFA-4727-

2016 (O&M).

1. By way of present appeal, challenge has been laid to an Award dated 31.10.2015 passed by the learned Additional District Judge, Rohtak (for short, “Reference Court”), whereby, reference petition preferred at the instance of respondents-landowner invoking Section 18 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for brevity, “the 1894 Act”), was partly accepted. 2. Brief facts of the case are that some land owned by the respondents-landowner, situated in the revenue estate of Village Kutana, District Rohtak,