THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.22758 of 2010 Date: 14.09.2010 Between: Addala Ravindra Varma ..... Petitioner AND The Sub-Registrar, Visakhapatnam. .....Respondent Counsel for the Petitioner: Sri T.M.K. Chaitanya Counsel for Respondent: Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue The Court made the following: ORDER: The petitioner, who claims to be the owner of 412.22 sq. yards of land in survey No.197/A3 of Vepagunta Village and Panchayat, Pendurthy Mandal, Visakhapatnam, intending to sell the said property to a third party, claimed to have presented the document for registration on 07.09.2010 before the respondent. The grievance of the petitioner is that the respondent has neither received the document nor passed any order for refusal to receive and register the document. As rightly contended by the learned counsel for the petitioner, it is incumbent upon the respondent to examine any document, if presented for registration in the light of the provisions of Sections 31 to 36 of the Registration Act, 1908 (for short ‘the Act’) and he shall take appropriate decision. If the respondent feels that the document so presented cannot be registered, he shall pass an order disclosing the reasons under Section 71 of the Act and if the party feels aggrieved by such a decision, he can avail the remedy of appeal under Section 72 of the Act and further remedy of civil suit under Section 77 of the Act. For the aforementioned reasons, the Writ Petition is disposed of with the direction to the respondent to do the needful in the light of the observations made hereinabove. As a sequel to disposal of the writ petition, W.P.M.P.No.29039 of 2010 filed by the petitioner for interim relief is disposed of as infructuous. ________________________ C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 14th September, 2010 GHN