IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF OCTOBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION NO : 18200 of 2008 Between: Vegeshana Viswanatha Raju S/o. Subba Raju R/o.6-108, Shamshabad Village and Mandal, Ranga Reddy District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The District Registrar, Ranga Reddy District at Moosapet, Hyderabad. 2 The Sub Registrar, Shamshabad Sub-Division, Ranga Reddy District. 3 The District Collector, Ranga Reddy District at Hyderabad. 4 The State of Andhra Pradesh, rep. by its Secretary, Revenue Department, Hyderabad. .....RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Aﬃdavit ﬁled herein the High Court will be pleased to issue writ of Mandamus or any other writ declaring that the action of the respondents in not entertaining in registering the sale deeds relating to the land in Sy.No.103/60 situated in Shamshabad Village and Mandal, Ranga Reddy District, as arbitrary and illegal and direct the respondents 1 and 2 to entertain such sale deed and release the same after due registration in accordance with law withholding the same on the ground that the subject land is covered by Sectilon 22- A(b) of the Registration Act, 1908 and grant such other relief Counsel for the Petitioner: MR.V.VENKATARAMANA Counsel for the Respondents: GP FOR REVENUE The Court made the following : ORDER: This writ petition is ﬁled by the petitioner questioning the action of the respondents in not entertaining the document presented by him in respect of the land in Sy.No.103/60 of Shamshabad Village and Mandal, Ranga Reddy District as arbitrary and illegal and consequently to direct the respondents to entertain the document and to release the same after due registration. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner as well as the learned Government Pleader for Revenue and at their request the writ petition is taken up for final disposal at the admission stage itself. The petitioner claims to be the absolute owner and possessor of the land admeasuring Ac.3.13 guntas in Sy.No.103/60 of Shamshabad Village and Mandal, Ranga Reddy District having purchased the same under a registered sale deed. While so, he wanted to sell away the said land and when he enquired about the registration expenses for selling the said land, he was informed by the 2nd respondent – Sub Registrar, Shamshabad that the same cannot be sold away in view of Section 22-A of the Registration Act, 1908 (for short ‘the Act’) as it is being claimed as a government land. A counter-aﬃdavit is ﬁled by the second respondent inter alia stating that the petitioner had not at all presented the document for registration. It is further stated that the land in Sy.No.103 of Shamshabad Village is a poramboke land and, therefore, even if the petitioner submits the documents, the same cannot be entertained for registration in view of Section 22-A of the Act. On the earlier occasion, when the matter came up for admission, this Court directed the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue to produce the notiﬁcation issued by the Government prohibiting the registration of the subject matter of lands. Today, when the matter is taken up, the learned Assistant Government Pleader submitted that there is no notiﬁcation published under Section 22-A of the Act in respect of the subject matter of land. Since there is no notiﬁcation issued under Section 22-A of the Act in respect of the subject matter of land, the Sub Registrar cannot refuse to register the document. In the circumstances, since there is no notiﬁcation issued under Section 22-A of the Act in respect of the land in question, the Sub Registrar, Shamshabad is directed to register the documents to be presented by the petitioner, if they are otherwise in order. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of. N.V.RAMANA, J Dt.13.10.2008 va/msv