THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE G.V.SEETHAPATHY CIVIL REVISION PETITION No.208 OF 2011 ORDER: This Civil Revision Petition is directed against the order, dated 04.09.2010, in O.S.No.144 of 2003 on the file of the learned Junior Civil Judge, Huzurabad, wherein the objection raised by the petitioners herein- defendants for marking of the document, dated 16.11.2002, by the plaintiff as exhibit in the evidence, was overruled holding that the document does not require stamp duty as it is only a resolution passed by the elders. 2. Heard both sides. Perused the records. 3. A perusal of the contents of the said document, dated 16.11.2002, sought to be exhibited by the plaintiff, would only disclose that the village elders have held a panchayat, wherein the dispute between the parties in respect of the subject-land was resolved and the advice of the elders was reduced to writing. It is not disputed that in pursuance thereof, a regular registered sale deed, dated 30.12.2002, was also executed. The present document, dated 16.11.2002, does not answer the description of the ‘instrument’ in terms of Section 2 (14) of the Indian Stamp Act, 1899 as the said document does not purport to create, transfer, limit, extend, extinguish rights of the parties in the above property. What all the document purports to do is to resolve the dispute between the parties. It is the other document, dated 30.12.2002, a registered sale deed executed in pursuance of the mediation by the elders, that actually purports to create or extinguish the rights of the parties. The subject-document, dated 16.11.2002, was rightly held to be a mere record of resolution of the dispute between the parties by the village elders in a panchayat and therefore, does not require any stamp duty/penalty. Therefore, it can be admitted in evidence. The impugned order, overruling the objection raised by the petitioners-defendants against marking of the document as an exhibit in evidence, does not therefore call for any interference by this Court. 4. In the result, Civil Revision Petition is dismissed. Interim stay granted on 11.02.2011 is vacated. _______________________ G.V.SEETHAPATHY, J 18th August, 2011. Tsy