THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION NO.4623 OF 2011 DATED 4TH MARCH, 2011 BETWEEN Allam Vijayalakshmi …Petitioner And The District Collector, Anantapur, Anantapur District and others. …Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION NO.4623 OF 2011 ORDER: The petitioner purchased an extent of Ac.5.26 cents of land in Survey Nos.216/1 and 190/1 of Somaladoddi Village, Anantapur Mandal and District, under registered sale deed dated 06.07.1976. She intended to sell the said land and accordingly presented the document before the Sub-Registrar, Anantapur, the fourth respondent herein, for registration. The fourth respondent however insisted on production of a No Objection Certificate (NOC) from the revenue authorities. The petitioner therefore approached the revenue authorities for issuance of a NOC but they expressed their inability to issue the same. Hence, this writ petition. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue. The record discloses that the subject land was initially assigned to the petitioner’s predecessors-in-title in the year 1951 vide D.Dis.No.173/60 dated 27.08.1951 and the petitioner purchased the said land from the legal heirs of the assignees by way of a registered document for a valid sale consideration. Though the subject land was originally assigned land, the assignment was not coupled with any prohibition as to alienation, as such prohibition was introduced only in the year 1954. Thus, the prohibition envisaged by the Andhra Pradesh Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfers) Act, 1977 has no application to the present case. Hence, the writ petition is allowed and the fourth respondent is directed to entertain the document presented by the petitioner and process the same without insisting on production of a No Objection Certificate from the revenue authorities. There shall be no order as to costs. ____________________ SANJAY KUMAR, J. 4TH MARCH, 2011. Note: Issue C.C. in three days. B/O VGSR/PGS