GULZAR SINGH Vs. STATE OF HARYANA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS judgment shall dispose of a bunch of Regular First Appeals, as all the appeals have arisen out of a common award dated August 16, 1995 passed by the learned Additional District Judge, Hisar.

(2.) SOME of the appeals have been filed by the claimants for enhancement of compensation. The State of Haryana has also filed the appeals against the award, claiming reduction of compensation as awarded by the learned Reference Court.

(3.) BEFORE the Reference Court, the partied led their evidence. The claimants appeared as their own witnesses in support of their claim. The claimants also produced PW3 Sish Pal Singh, Patwari Halqa. They also relied upon various sale instances to claim that the acquired land was much more valuable than the market value assessed by the Land Acquisition Collector. Similarly, the respondents also produced various sale instances. Halqa Patwari was produced as RW1, Atma Ram.