6.It is an admitted fact that the land belonging to the petitioners was acquired for the third respondent and an award has been passed by the second respondent. Dissatisfied with the amount, they filed objection and it was referred to the Sub Court, Neyyattinkara for considering the claim of the petitioners for enhancement of the amount for the land acquired. It is seen from the report that there are 107 land acquisition reference cases are pending before that court of which 48 land acquisition reference cases are of the year 2012 which were included in the target for the year 2016-17 apart from sessions cases included. It is true that courts below are now over burdened and they are expected to dispose of the cases of old in nature. But some times, some prioritisation will have to be given considering the urgency of the parties, nature of case etc as well. Being a land acquisition matter, where the property has been acquired for public purpose and coming to court for enhancement, that will have to be taken into account by the courts and some relief will have to be given to such persons who have lost their land for public purposes. However the Sub Judge had expressed her willingness to expedite
