value awarded by the Land Acquisition Officer in respect of a property situated in Paravur Municipality. Evidently, the property involved in this appeal also lies within the same Municipality. The reference court rightly took note of the fact that the basic document property considered in the case on hand by the Land Acquisition Officer was one situated in a Panchayat area having National Highway frontage. As noticed hereinbefore, the property involved in Ext.A1 and also the property involved in the case on hand lie in Paravur Municipality. At the same time, a scanning of the impugned judgment would reveal that the reference court also took note of the fact that the property involved in Ext.A1 judgment lies more closer to Paravur town and in fact, the property involved in this appeal lies about 2 Kms. away from the town. That apart, it was found that the property involved in Ext.A1 abuts a road whereas, the acquired land though forms a part of larger extent lies on the rear side of that larger extent and in fact, not abutting the road. It was after making a proper comparison of both the properties that the reference court found that the claimants are not entitled to claim the same rate of enhancement viz., 96% as has been granted as per Ext.A1 but, at the same time, found that the Land Acquisition Officer went wrong in relying on the document pertains to a property which lies in the Panchayat area as basic document for assessing the
