It is not in dispute that the determination of amount of compensation payable to these petitioners with respect to the lands in question, fully detailed in paragraph 4 of each of the writ petitions, was made by the competent authority as defined under Section 3(a) of the Act, 1956. The petitioners, being not satisfied with the determination made by the competent authority in terms of Section 3G(1) of the Act, 1956, had moved this Court by filing their separate writ petitions seeking a direction to the respondents for payment of higher amount of compensation after taking into consideration the pleas raised on their behalf in their writ petitions. CWJC No.12281 of 2010 (Haribansh Narayan Singh & Anr. Vs. the State of Bihar & Ors.), CWJC No.12317 of 2010 (Aditya Narain Singh VS. the State of Bihar & Ors.) and CWJC No.12339 of 2010 (Abdul Malik Vs. the State of Bihar & Ors.), filed by the petitioners, were heard together by a Bench of this Court and by a common order dated 09.09.2010, all the aforesaid three writ petitions were disposed of with a direction to the petitioners to appear before the Arbitrator, who, in turn, was directed to consider their claims in terms of Section 3G(5) of the Act, 1956. The aforesaid order dated 09.09.2010 passed by this Court has been brought on the record as Annexure-7 in CWJC No.4064 of 2014.
