Land Acquisition – Compensation – Determination of – Held: While determining the compensation by the impugned common judgment and order/s, the High Court relied upon its earlier decisions in the cases of Surjit Singh & Kapoor Singh – Aforesaid decisions of the High Court were the subject matter of appeals before Supreme Court wherein the compensation was further enhanced – Landowners in the present appeals are also similarly situated – Accordingly, the amount of compensation payable to the landowners is enhanced by a further sum of Rs.1,00,000/- per acre in C.A. arising out of RFA No.1614 of 2000 and by Rs. 2,00,000/- per acre in remaining Civil Appeals – Further, original landowners shall be entitled to solatium as prescribed under the statute on the enhanced amount of compensation – However, they shall not be entitled to any statutory benefits including the interest under the Act from the date of respective judgments and orders passed by the High Court till the filing of the appeals in Supreme Court. Kapoor Singh v. State of Punjab & Another Etc. and Surjit Singh v. State of Punjab & Anr. Etc. Common order of Supreme Court dtd. 15.01.2014 passed in Civil Appeal Nos. 738-748/2014 and Civil Appeal No. 363/2013 – relied on.
Surjit Singh v. State of Punjab & Another Decision of High Court dtd. 2.3.2009 in RFA No. 3004/2006; Kapoor Singh v. The State of Punjab & Another Decision of High Court dtd. 28.01.2010 in RFA No. 2348/1998 – referred to.
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