THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.4494 OF 1999 Date: 05.02.2010 Between: Syed Salauddin Ahmed Quadri. … Petitioner And State of A.P. rep., by Registrar, Registration & Stamp Department through its Joint Sub-Registrar, Khairatabad Sub-Registrar, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad and others. … Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.4494 OF 1999 ORDER: The relief sought for in the writ petition is for a direction to respondent Nos. 1 and 2 to produce the original register i.e., Volume No.152 Book 1 of 1966 with respect to registration of mortgage deed in document No.3045/66 dated 12.12.1996. During the course of hearing of the writ petition, Sri M. Papa Reddy, learned Counsel for the petitioner, would submit that a photostat copy of the mortgage deed is available with the petitioner and, since the original copy of the mortgage deed was forwarded by the Sub-Registrar to the Chairman, State Transport Tribunal where the said document is said to have been lost, it would suffice if the writ petition is disposed of directing the respondents to furnish certified copies of the said mortgage deed. In the counter-affidavit filed by the Joint Sub-Registrar dated 09.12.2009, it is stated at paragraph 2 as under: “I respectfully submit that the petitioner may be requested to furnish a Xerox copy of the document bearing No.3045/1996. The particulars in the Xerox copy can be compared with the Index-II particulars available in this office records. The Index-II Register maintained in this office contains the details of the executant/claimant, the details of the schedule property of the document registered in this office. If the particulars available in the Xerox copy of the document tally with that of the particulars entered in the Index-II register particulars, the petitioner can be issued a certified copy. Since the petitioner has not furnished the Xerox copy of the document, I could not verify the same.” As the respondents are now willing to furnish a certified copy, if the particulars available in the photostat copy of the document tallied with the particulars entered in the Index-II register, no order need be passed except to hold that, on the petitioner furnishing a photostat copy of the mortgage deed, the Joint Sub-Registrar, Hyderabad, South, shall take necessary action thereupon in the light of what has been had stated in the counter-affidavit filed by him on 09.12.2009, the relevant portions of which are extracted hereinabove. The Joint Sub-Registrar shall take an appropriate decision in accordance with law and communicate the same to the petitioner within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of the photostat copy of the mortgage deed. The writ petition is, accordingly, disposed of. However, in the circumstances, without costs. Date: 05.02.2010 ____________________________ RAMESH RANGANATHAN,J MRKR/ASP