زمین کے حصول پر معاوضہ: صرف مارکیٹ ویلیو کافی نہیں
⚖️ دونوں فریقوں کا موقف
حکومت اور متعلقہ محکمہ مقررہ معاوضے کو درست قرار دے رہے تھے، جبکہ زمین مالکان کا مؤقف تھا کہ انہیں زمین کی اصل قدر اور مستقبل کی اہمیت کے مطابق زیادہ معاوضہ ملنا چاہیے۔
🏛️ ریفرنس کورٹ کا فیصلہ
ریفرنس کورٹ نے معاوضے کا تعین کیا، جس کے خلاف زمین مالکان اور سرکاری محکمہ دونوں نے اپیلیں دائر کیں۔
📌 ہائی کورٹ کا اہم فیصلہ
عدالت نے قرار دیا کہ معاوضہ طے کرتے وقت صرف موجودہ مارکیٹ ویلیو نہیں بلکہ زمین کا محلِ وقوع، اردگرد کا علاقہ اور مستقبل میں ترقی کی صلاحیت بھی مدنظر رکھی جائے گی۔
💰 معاوضے کی رقم
عدالت نے قرار دیا کہ زمین مالکان 5 لاکھ روپے فی کنال معاوضے کے حق دار ہیں۔ سرکاری اپیلیں مسترد جبکہ زمین مالکان کی اپیل جزوی طور پر منظور کر لی گئی۔
حوالہ: 2026 MLD 942, لاہور ہائی کورٹ (راولپنڈی بینچ)
Must read Judgment.
2026 M L D 942
[Lahore (Rawalpinidi Bench)]
Before Mirza Viqas Rauf and Jawad Hassan, JJ
The BOARD OF REVENUE PUNJAB and others--Petitioners.
Versus
IBRAR HUSSAIN and others--Respondents
R.F.A No. 154 of 2021, heard on 26th January, 2026.
(a) Land Acquisition Act (I of 1894)---
S.23--- Acquisition of land Determination and enhancement of compensation Cross appeals by landowners and beneficiary department Assessment of compensation Factors to be considered Scope Land in question was acquired through proceedings under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894; on references under 5.18 thereof, the Trial Court decided the matter, against which cross-appeals were filed by the landowners and beneficiary department--Issue was whether the e com compensation awarded for the acquired land was correctly determined in accordance with law and the prevailing market value---Held: Market value was only one of such factors to be considered for the purpose of award of compensation to the landowners Location, neighborhood, potentiality or other benefits which might ensue from the land in future could not ignored Keeping in view the mutations brought on record, the landowners had rightly been entitled for the compensation of their land as Rs.500,000/- per kanal-Present appeal as well as connected appeal filed by the appellants and the beneficiary department were dismissed, whereas, appeals preferred by landowners was partly allowed, in circumstances.
(b) Land Acquisition Act (I of 1894)---
5.23 Determination of compensation Salient features (1) market value of land at the prevalent time and its potential; (ii) one year average of sale taken place before publication of notification under S.4 of the Act of the similar land; (iii) its likelihood of development and improvement; (iv) a willing purchaser would pay to a willing buyer in an open market arms length transaction entered into without any compulsion; (v) loss or injury occurred by severing of acquired land from other property of the land owner; (vi) loss or injury by by change of residence or or place of business and loss of of profit; (vii) delay in the consummation of acquisition proceedings and; (viii) peculiar facts and circumstances of each case.
(c) Land Acquisition Act (I of 1894)
5.4 Compulsory acquisition of land Right of general public over an individual land owner Scope Through the process. of acquisition a landowner is to be deprived of his property which is a stringent step but right of an individual cannot take precedence upon the right of general public Acquisition of land is always meant for the benefit of large segment of society at the altar of rights of a specific group of society or the individual.
(d) Land Acquisition Act (I of 1894)---
Ss.28 & 34 Acquisition of land Right to hold property not absolute Deprivation of land Compensatory safeguards Award of interest Scope Right of a citizen to hold property is not unfettered and unbridled but it is always subject to the law of land In order to provide reasonable protection to the proprietary rights of a citizen whole land is to be acquired, the legislature inserted Ss.28 & 34 in the Act, 1894 wherein a landowner who has been deprived of her/her land is held entitled to receive interest in addition to the compensation amount.
Malik Amjad Ali, Additional Advocate General Punjab and Miss Rahat Farooq Raja, Assistant Advocate General Punjab for Appellants.
Barrister Ch. Imran Hassan Ali for Respondents Nos. 1 to 3. Attaullah H. Kundi for Proforma Respondent.
Date of hearing: 26th January, 2026.