THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.22549 of 2011 ORDER: The relief sought for, in this Writ Petition, is to declare the action of the 4th respondent in refusing to receive and register the sale deeds presented by the petitioners for registration as arbitrary and illegal. The petitioner claims to be the legal heirs of the original assignee who was assigned an extent of Ac.8.65 cts in Sy. No.273/2 of Cherlopalli village, Rayachoty Mandal, YSR District in the year 1929. When they sought to sell the said land to third parties, and presented sale deeds for registration, the Sub-Registrar refused to receive the documents on the ground that these lands were shown as assigned lands in the list forwarded to him in the year 2006 by the 3rd respondent. A counter-affidavit is filed by the 3rd respondent wherein it is stated that an extent of Ac.8.65 cts of land in Sy. No.273/2 of Cherlopalli village, Rayachoty Mandal, YSR District was originally Government land; the said land was assigned to landless poor persons on 10.05.1929; and the said land was included in the list of Government lands furnished to the Sub-Registrar. On being asked whether there was any non-alienation clause at the time of grant of assignment, Learned Government Pleader for Revenue (Andhra and Rayalaseema Area), would fairly state that the condition of non-alienation was introduced for the first time in the year 1954 and, since these lands are said to have been assigned much prior thereto in the year 1929, there could not have been any condition prohibiting alienation of such assigned lands. In the absence of any prohibition from alienation, the petitioners herein are not precluded from selling these lands to third parties. I consider it appropriate, in such circumstances, to direct the 4th respondent to receive the documents presented for registration, in so far as it relates to sale of land of an extent of Ac.8.65 cts in Sy. No.273/2 of Cherlopalli village, Rayachoty Mandal, YSR District, and consider registration of the said documents in accordance with law and in terms of the observations made hereinabove within a period of two months from the date when the documents are presented for registration. The Writ Petition is disposed of accordingly. No costs. _____________________________ RAMESH RANGANATHAN, J Date: 24.11.2011 Note: Issue copy in one week. B/o MRKR