HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE L.NARASIMHA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.9110 of 2007 Dated:27.04.2007 Between: P.Srinivasa Rao …Petitioner And: Government of A.P., reptd., by its Principal Secretary, Revenue, Secretariat, Hyderabad and another. … Respondents HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE L.NARASIMHA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.9110 of 2007 ORDER: Petitioner states that he purchased an extent of 134 square yards of land in Plot No.14A situated in Sy.No.151/1C (Patta No.42) of Vepagunta Village under an agreement of sale deed, dated 11.10.2004 from one Peetambaram Family. It is stated that he approached the second respondent, to register the same in his favour. The grievance of the petitioner is that the second respondent is not accepting any 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 second 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 second respondent to receive and process the document that may be presented by the petitioner and take necessary steps, in accordance with the provisions of the Indian Stamp Act and the Registration Act. There shall be no order as to costs. ________________________ L.NARASIMHA REDDY, J 27.04.2007 dr [1] AIR 2005 SC 3401 = (2005) 12 SCC 77