THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY Writ Petition No.3042 of 2010 DT.01.11.2010 Between: Janjala Venkata Chalapathi and another … Petitioners And The District Collector, Chittoor District, Chittoor and others … Respondents Counsel for the Petitioners: Mr.R.Ramachandra Reddy Counsel for respondents: AGP for Revenue The Court made the following ORDER: ORDER: This writ petition is filed for a mandamus to declare the action of respondent No.2 in including the lands admeasuring Acs.3.11 cents comprised in Survey No.200-1 of Gudarevupalli Village in the list of assigned lands communicated vide letter, dated 26.11.2009, and the action of respondent No.3 in refusing to register the sale deeds sought to be presented by the petitioners, as illegal and arbitrary. In the affidavit filed in support of the writ petition, the petitioners have averred that the above-mentioned land was initially purchased by one Chamanagiri Alivelamma, vide document No.4135/77, dated 17.11.1977, from Sri Abdul Khadar Saheb S/o. Late Shaik Pakeer Saheb. That later in the year 2001, said Chamanagiri Alivelamma sold Acs.3.08 cents out of Acs.3.11 cents to petitioner No.2 and others, vide document No.2223/2001, which was registered in the office of respondent No.3. That subsequently, the persons who purchased the lands along with petitioner No.2 sold away their respective shares to the petitioners and that ever since then, they claim to be in possession and enjoyment of the same. When the petitioners sought to sell the property and approached respondent No.3 in that connection with a request to him to intimate on the value of the land for the purpose of stamp duty and registration fee, the latter refused to accede to the petitioners’ request on the ground that through the above-mentioned letter of respondent No.2, the land was shown as belonging to the Government. In the counter affidavit filed on behalf of respondent No.2, it is stated that the property in question is Government land in terms of Permanent A-Register prepared in the year 1914 and therefore, the same was included in the list of prohibited lands for registration, communicated to respondent No.3. While dealing with a similar situation, this Court in Shaik Dudekula Pyari Jan @ Lal Bi and others v. The Revenue Divisional Officer, Madanapalli, Office of the Revenue Divisional Officer, Punganur Road, Madanapalli, Chittoor District and others[1], held that mere entry in the RSR is not conclusive proof of title. The petitioners have specifically pleaded in the affidavit and the same is not denied by the respondents in the counter affidavit that several sale transactions through registered sale deeds have taken place from 1971 in respect of the same land. In my opinion, the reasoning of this Court in the above- mentioned judgment squarely applies to this case. Accordingly, this writ petition is allowed with a direction to respondent No.3 to entertain the documents presented by the petitioners for registration without treating the land as belonging to the Government. However, this order does not preclude the Government and its functionaries from asserting their title over the property in an appropriate Court of law. As a sequel to disposal of the writ petition, W.P.M.P.No.3988 of 2010 filed by the petitioners for interim relief is disposed of as infructuous. (C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J) Date: 01.11.2010. VGB [1] W.P.No.6016 of 2010, dated 02.07.2010