THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.23330 of 2002 DATE: 28.01.2010 Between: Y.Madhusudhana Reddy and another …Petitioners and District Registrar, Kurnool and others …Respondents COUNSEL FOR THE PETITIONERS : SRI SHANKAR BANDARI FOR SRI J.R.MANOHAR RAO THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.23330 of 2002 ORDER: This writ petition is filed for a certiorari to quash proceedings, dated 09.09.2002 whereby the licenses of the petitioners for writing documents, are cancelled following the raid conducted by Anti Corruption Bureau. At the hearing, the learned counsel for the petitioners has not disputed that against the impugned order, statutory appeal lies to the appellate authority under Rule 216 of the AP Rules under the Registration Act, 1908. It is stated in paragraph 5 of the affidavit that as the impugned proceedings were issued under the instructions of respondent Nos.2 to 4, no purpose would be served if an appeal is filed. A perusal of the impugned proceedings shows that there is a reference to certain proceedings issued by respondent Nos.2 to 4 but the purport of these proceedings is not revealed in the impugned proceedings. When the statute provides for an appeal, it is incumbent upon the appellate authority to dispose of the appeal on its own merits without being influenced by the instructions issued by the superior authorities or in a given case by the appellate authority itself. Therefore, I am not inclined to dispose of the writ petition on merits, when an effective alternative remedy of appeal is available to the petitioners. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of, without going into the merits of the case, giving liberty to the petitioners to file appeals before the appellate authority, who in turn, shall entertain and dispose of such appeals on merits without having preconceived mind and being influenced by the instructions issued by the superior authority. The petitioners are permitted to file appeals within a period of six (6) weeks from today and for a period of eight (8) weeks, status quo as on today shall be maintained. The petitioners are entitled to seek appropriate interim orders pending appeals. As a sequel to disposal of main petition, interim order, dated 26.11.2002 is vacated and WPMP.No.29252 of 2002 is dismissed. WVMP.No.1235 of 2003 is disposed of as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 28th JANUARY, 2010. kvni