THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE L.NARASIMHA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.5874 of 2007 Date:23.03.2007 Between: B.V.Ravindranadh. ….Petitioner and The Sub-Registrar and another ….Respondents O R D E R: The petitioner states that one Smt.Makala Lakshmi is the owner and possessor of the property admeasuring 170 sq.yards in Survey No.141/1A situated at Vepagunta Village, Pendurthi Mandal, Visakhapatnam District, and that he intended to purchase the said property and went to the office of the first respondent along with his vendor. According to him, the document executed by his vendor was presented to the first respondent for registration. The grievance of the petitioner is that the first respondent is not accepting the document for registration, on the ground that the Government issued a notification under Section 22-A of the Registration Act, 1908 (for short ‘the Act’), in respect of the land in the said survey number. This writ petition is filed seeking appropriate directions to the respondents in this regard. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Government Pleader for Revenue. Section 22-A of the Act empowered the Government to issue notifications almost preventing the registration of documents in respect of the lands to be mentioned therein. Such a power was held to be ultra vires and the provision was struck down by the Hon’ble Supreme Court in State of Rajasthan v. Basanth Nahata[1]. Once the sole basis for the first respondent to refuse registration had disappeared, he is under obligation to receive the documents and consider the same in accordance with the provisions of the Indian Stamp Act and the Registration Act. Hence, the writ petition is disposed of, directing the first respondent to receive and process the document presented by the petitioner and take necessary steps in accordance with the provisions of the Indian Stamp Act and the Registration Act, within one week from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. There shall be no order as to costs. _____________ 23.03.2007 usd [1] AIR 2005 SC 3401 = (2005) 12 SCC 77