IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD THURSDAY, THE TWENTY FIFTH DAY OF FEBRUARY TWO THOUSAND AND ELEVEN PRESENT: THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION No.4601 OF 2011 Between: D.Bojja Reddy … Petitioner AND The District Collector, Chittoor District, and three others. … Respondents This Court made the following: O R D E R : The grievance of the petitioner is with regard to the action of the Sub Registrar, Piler, Chittoor District in not furnishing the market value of his land admeasuring Ac.1.00 cents in Survey No.1969/1B of Doddipalle Village, Piler Mandal, Chittoor District. He seeks a direction to the said authority to furnish him the said information and entertain and process for registration his sale deed in respect of the said land without insisting upon a ‘No Objection Certificate’ from the Revenue Authorities. 2. The land of the petitioner is situated in Survey No.1969/1B of Doddipalle Village, Piler Mandal, Chittoor District and the certificate furnished by the Sub Registrar, Piler, states that the said land is classified as assessed waste dry (DKT) as per the information furnished by the Mandal Revenue Officer, Piler. It is on this basis that the Sub Registrar, Piler, refused to furnish the market value of the property. 3. This Court had occasion to deal with the claim of the authorities in respect of the land in Sy.No.1969/1B of Doddipalle Village in W.P. No.6016 of 2010. By order dated 02-07-2010 passed therein, this Court rejected the plea of the Registration Authorities that registration of a document in respect of this land could be refused on the ground that it was claimed to be Government land on the basis of revenue entries. This Court pointed out that under Section 22-A(2) of the Registration Act, 1908, the Government is required to issue a notification in respect of the lands falling within Section 22-A(1)(e) of the Registration Act, 1908, in respect of which registration of documents would be prohibited. It was the claim of the authorities that the land in Survey No.1969/1B of Doddipalle Village, Piler Mandal, was Government land basing on the entries in the Village Account, RSR. This claim was rejected in the light of the evidence to the contrary produced in that case. This Court further observed that it would be open to the Government to assert and prove that the land belonged to it before the appropriate forum in accordance with law. 4. Viewed thus, the action of the Sub Registrar, Piler, in treating the subject land as Government land on the basis of the list furnished by the Mandal Revenue Officer, Piler, is unsustainable in law. There shall accordingly be a direction to the Sub Registrar, Piler, to furnish to the petitioner the market value of the subject land for the purpose of registration and entertain the document presented by the petitioner in respect of the subject land and process the same for registration in accordance with law. 5. The Writ Petition is disposed of with the above direction. No costs. __________________ SANJAY KUMAR, J Date: 25-02-2011. KVS THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION No. 4601 OF 2011 February 25, 2011