PRITAM DEVI PRITO Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This judgment will dispose of R.F. As. Nos. 1704, 2131, 2181 of 1984 and R.F.A.No. 55 of 1985, as these arises out of the same award of the learned Additional District Judge, Hoshiarpur, and rest upon the same evidence.

(2.) In brief, the facts are that in pursuance of notification published on 25th February, 1981, under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (hereinafter referred to as the Act), some land including the land of the appellants in the present appeals, falling in the revenue estate of village Raili, Tehsil Dasuya, District Hoshiarpur, was acquired for the Mukerian Hydel Channel Project by the State of Punjab. The Land Acquisition Collector vide his award dated 13th August,1981, awarded compensation of the acquired land as under :-

(3.) Vide detailed order dated 3rd November, 1988, this Court allowed the application for additional evidence in order to produce sale-deed, Exhibit AA/1, corresponding to mutation P.16 on the file, as in view of the Full Bench decision of this Court in State of Punjab v. Pohu and another, 1986 RRR 228(P&H) rendering the certified copies of mutations as inadmissible in evidence for assessing the terms and conditions of the relevant sale transactions.