THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE ASHUTOSH MOHUNTA WRIT PETITION No.9046 of 2011 DATE: 06th April, 2011 Between: Kotagiri Samrajyalakshmi … Petitioner A n d The Sub Registrar, Chintalapudi and another … Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE ASHUTOSH MOHUNTA WRIT PETITION No.9046 of 2011 ORDER: The petitioner purchased agricultural lands admeasuring Ac.0.98 cents in Sy.No.192/1 and admeasuring Ac.2.02 cents in Sy.No.194/4 of Chintampalli Village, Chintalapudi Mandal in open auction conducted by the Deputy Registrar/Special Officer, on behalf of Chintalapudi Primary Agricultural Society. The auction was confirmed on 04-09-1979 and the petitioner was issued Sale Certificate in Form No.10. It is the case of the petitioner that now she intends to sell the aforementioned property due to financial problems and also entered into agreement of sale with the intending purchaser and has received part of the sale consideration. But when she applied for Valuation Certificate to know the stamp duty and registration fee, the Sub-Registrar informed her that the aforementioned lands are assigned lands and are not registerable as per the information given by the 2nd respondent. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that once the petitioner had purchased lands in an open auction, then the 1st respondent cannot refuse to entertain and process documents for the purpose of registration. 3. After hearing the counsel for the parties, it is clear that the petitioner had purchased the subject land in an open auction which was conducted by the Chintalapudi Primary Agricultural Society way back on 04-09-1979. Since then, the petitioner is in possession of the property. In as much as the petitioner has purchased the property in the open auction conducted by the Primary Agricultural Society, the said lands cannot be described as assigned lands and hence, the 1st respondent cannot refuse to accept the documents presented by the petitioner. 4. In view of the above, this writ petition is disposed of with a direction to the 1st respondent to receive and process the documents for registration, provided the said document is in compliance with the provisions of the Registration Act and Stamp Act. There shall be no order as to costs. _________________________________ JUSTICE ASHUTOSH MOHUNTA 06th April, 2011 KSM