THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO WRIT PETITION No. 15444 OF 2011 O R D E R: This Writ Petition has been instituted complaining of the action on the part of the 4th respondent Sub-Registrar in not entertaining a conveyance deed said to have been presented by the petitioners for the purpose of registration. It is alleged that the 4th respondent Sub-Registrar, Anantapur Rural is insisting upon production of ‘No Objection Certificate’ from the revenue establishment on the precious plea that lands with which the petitioners are concerned have once before been notified prohibiting their registration. However, learned counsel for the petitioners has drawn my attention to a communication dated 28.08.2005 sent up by the Mandal Revenue Officer, Anantapur to the Sub-Registrar, wherein it is stated that the Mandal Revenue Inspector-II, Anantapur has enquired into the matter and submitted his report that there cannot be any objection for sale of land in Survey Nos. 136/1, 136/2 of an extent of Ac.3.50 cents and Survey No. 136/3, in an extent of Ac.3.46 cents of Kurugunta Village. Therefore, the Mandal Revenue Officer has requested to change the lands noted supra from category ‘09’ to ‘01’, as the revenue establishment has no objection for registration of sale transactions concerning these lands. If the Mandal Revenue Officer has already communicated his decision as of 28.08.2005, the Sub-Registrar ought to have acted upon it and deleted these lands from out of the prohibitory order book. For the purpose of registration, all that this Sub-Registrar is required to examine is that the document presented before him is one which requires compulsory registration in terms of Section 17 of the Registration Act, 1908 and that no prohibition contained under Section 22-A of the said Act is attracted. So long as the document/instrument presented is properly stamped and is in conformity with law in all other respects, the Sub-Registrar should not decline either to entertain or process such a document/instrument. He is entitled to take action keeping in view the power available to him under Section 71 of the said Act. Therefore, the 4th respondent Sub-Registrar is directed to take appropriate measures and steps in furtherance of the communication dated 28.08.2005 sent up by the Mandal Revenue Officer, Anantapur, so long as the said communication is not modified or withdrawn. Therefore, the 4th respondent Sub-Registrar is directed to entertain, process and register any deed of conveyance, which the petitioners might present before him in accordance with law and if it is in conformity with law in all respects, register the same and also release it. With this, the Writ Petition stands disposed of. No costs. ---------------------------------- (NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO, J) 8th July 2011 Issue CC in two days. ksld