HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. NAGARJUNA REDDY C.R.P.No.961 of 2010 Date : 12-8-2011 Between : Gantla Yadagiri Reddy and another .. Petitioners and Gantla China Venkata Reddy and others .. Respondents Counsel for petitioners : Sri M.Venkatram Reddy Counsel for respondents : None appeared The court made the following: ORDER: This Civil Revision Petition arises out of order dated 4- 12-2009 in O.S.No.34/2007 on the file of the learned Senior Civil Judge, Nalgonda whereby he has rejected the objection of the petitioners for marking of Ex.B-15 on behalf of the respondents/defendants. Despite service of notice on the respondents, no one represented them at the hearing. I have heard Sri M.Venkatram Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioners and perused the record. The petitioners filed the above mentioned suit for partition and separate possession of the suit schedule property. The defendants resisted the suit inter alia by taking the plea that there was already severance of the joint family status. In support of their plea, defendant No.1, examined as DW-1, has sought to mark document dated 12-5-1998 as Ex.B-15. The petitioners raised an objection as to its admissibility on the ground that the recitals in the said document show that it is an out-right sale, which requires payment of stamp duty and registration and that as the said document is unstamped and unregistered, the same is not admissible in evidence. The court below has overruled the said objection of the petitioners on the reasoning that the respondents/defendants are seeking to rely on the said document only for the collateral purpose of proving the severance of joint family status. In my opinion, the reasoning of the court below does not suffer from any error of law because the settled legal principle is that even an unstamped and unregistered document can be admitted into evidence for a collateral purpose. The respondents/defendants are not claiming their rights through the document in question but they are seeking to rely upon the said document only for the purpose of showing that the joint family is no longer in existence. In this view of the matter, the Civil Revision Petition is without any merit and hence the same is dismissed. As a sequel CRP.MP.No.1335/2010 is dismissed as infructuous. ________________________ Justice C.V. Nagarjuna Reddy Date : 12-8-2011 AM