Land Acquisition – Compensation – Enhancement 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 to Rs.1,00,000/- per acre in all the appeals where the High Court has relied upon its earlier decision in the case of Kapoor Singh – In Civil appeal arising out of the impugned judgment and order passed by the High Court passed in RFA No. 4975/2010 in which the High Court has relied upon its earlier decision in the case of Surjit Singh, the amount of compensation payable to the landowners is enhanced to Rs. 2,00,000/- per acre – Further, original landowners shall be entitled to solatium as prescribed under the statute on the enhanced amount of compensation from the date of orders passed by the High Court – However, they shall not be entitled to interest from the date of the orders passed by the High Court till filing of the appeals before 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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