IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD FRIDAY, THE FIFTH DAY OF FEBRUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TEN PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE K.C. BHANU CIVIL REVISION PETITION No.116 of 2010 Between: Alineni Narender Rao, S/o. Rajeswar Rao and another ..... PETITIONERS AND Gattu Maurthi @ Gattu Mauthi Rao, S/o. Hanmandlu and others ....RESPONDENTS The Court made the following: THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE K.C. BHANU CIVIL REVISION PETITION No.116 OF 2010 ORDER: This revision, under Article 227 of the Constitution of India, is directed against the docket order, dated 17.11.2009, passed in O.S.No.2 of 2006 on the file of the learned II Additional District Judge, Karimnagar at Jagtial, whereunder and whereby, the document, agreement of Sale, dated 12.10.2005, was ordered to be received by paying stamp duty and penalty. It is not in dispute before this Court that Section 17 (2) (v) of the Registration Act, 1908 (for short, “the Act”) lays down that where a document other than the documents specified in sub-section (1-A) except an agreement of sale as mentioned in clause (g) of sub-section (1) not in itself creating, declaring, assigning, limiting or extinguishing any right, but merely creating a right to obtain another document, the same is compulsorily registerable. Admittedly, the document does not create any right to the vendor. Therefore, it is not compulsorily registerable document under Section 17 of the Act. It can be received in evidence. But the only objection was that the trial Court ordered for payment of stamp duty and penalty under Schedule I-A (6) of the Act, which reads that the Agreement or Memorandum of an agreement not otherwise provided for, where the value exceeds Rs.50,000/-, proper stamp duty is Rs.100/- . It is not in dispute that the agreement of sale has been executed on Rs.100/- stamp paper. Therefore, there is no need to pay any stamp duty and penalty. Hence, the impugned order with regard to the payment of stamp duty and penalty is hereby set aside. Accordingly, the Civil Revision Petition is allowed. There shall be no order as to costs. _______________ K.C. BHANU, J February 05, 2010 MD