THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION Nos.4866, 4868 and 4869 of 2011 COMMON ORDER: The grievance of the petitioners in these three cases is that the Sub-Registrar, Chintalapudi, West Godavari District, the 1st respondent herein, was not entertaining the documents presented by them for registration on the ground that the land covered by the said documents were shown to be assigned lands as per the information furnished by the revenue authorities. It is the case of the petitioners that the subject lands were purchased in the auctions conducted by Co-operative Societies/Banks and therefore, the lands would cease to be assigned lands falling within the prohibition envisaged by the A.P. Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfers) Act, 1977. The issue is squarely covered by the judgment of this Court in Sub-Registrar, Srikalahasti vs. K.Guravaiah[1], wherein a Division Bench of this Court held that in view of Section 6 of the A.P. Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfers) Act, 1977 (for short ‘the Act, 1977’), mortgaged assigned land sold in a public auction for recovery of a debt by a Co-operative Society/Bank would cease to have the said status insofar as the prohibition under the Act of 1977 is concerned. In that view of the matter, the 1st respondent cannot rely upon the original classification in the revenue records to the effect that the subject lands are shown as assigned lands, losing sight of the fact that they were sold in public auctions for recovery of debts by Co-operative Societies/Banks. There shall accordingly be a direction to the Sub-Registrar, Chintalapudi, West Godavari District, to entertain the documents presented by the petitioners in respect of the subject lands and process the same for registration in accordance with law, without reference to the fact that they were earlier shown to be assigned lands. The writ petitions are disposed of with the above directions. No order as to costs. _____________________ JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR 01.03.2011 v v [1] 2009(2) ALD 250