THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA W.P. No. 2635 of 2008 Oral order: Aggrieved by the action of respondent No.1- Government of Andrha Pradesh, in issuing Gazette Notiﬁcation in G.O. Ms. No. 582, Revenue (Registration.I), dated 04.05.2005, notifying the land in Sy. No. 145 of Paradesipalem village, Madhurawada, Visakhapatnam, as illegal and arbitrary, and consequently direct respondent Nos. 1 to 5 to de-notify the land in Sy. No. 145, which covers the property of the petitioners situated in Sy. Nos. 145/4B, 145/5 and 145/1A, and further direction respondent No.6, namely the Sub Registrar, Visakhapatnam, to receive the sale deeds to be presented by the petitioner or his nominees in respect of the land covered by Plot Nos. 74, 75, 76, 91 and 93 in Sy. Nos. 138/P, 141/P and 145/P under BLP 5/93, the petitioner filed the present writ petition. The petitioner states that he entered into two separate sale agreements in the year 2006 for purchase of vacant Plot bearing Nos. 54, 75, 76 and 91 from his vendor by name Nammi Rambabu and Plot No. 93 from Bolligarla Kasulu, which are covered by Block Layout Plan Br. No. 5 of 1993 in Sy. Nos. 138/P, 141/P and 145/P of Paradesipalem village and Panchayat, Madhurawada, Visakhapatnam. That when he went to enquire about the stamp duty for getting the said deeds registered, respondent No.6 informed him that the land in Sy. No. 145 has been notiﬁed as government land vide G.O. Ms. No. 582, dated 04.05.2005, and that sale transactions relating to the said land cannot be accepted, having regard to Section 22-A of the Registration Act, which prohibited registration of lands belonging to the government. According to the petitioner, the lands in question are zyroithi lands, as is evident from the report of the Mandal Revenue Inspector/Mandal Surveyor, and as such, the action of respondent No.1- Government in issuing the impugned G.O. notifying the land in question as government land, is illegal and arbitrary. Respondent Nos. 5 and 6 ﬁled counter. Respondent No. 5 in the counter ﬁled by him has admitted that in the notification the land in Sy. No. 145/1 (Ac. 0.52 as rasta), Sy. No. 145/3 (Ac. 0.35 as Gayyalu) and Sy. No. 145 (Ac. 9.25) totalling an extent of Ac.10.12 cts, were notiﬁed as government lands. He, however, stated that the total extent of land in Sy. No. 145 is only Acs. 4.38 cts as per the Settlement Fair Adangal and also as per Field Measurement Book of Paradesipalem. Due to clerical/typographical error, the total extent of land in Sy. No. 145 is notiﬁed as Acs. 9.25 as government land. In fact, there is not so much extent in Sy. No. 145. Notifying the two sub-divisions viz., Sy. Nos. 145/1 and 145/3 in the list of government lands, as per the Settlement Fair Adangal, is correct, but showing the entire Sy. No. 145, admeasuring Acs. 9.25 in the list of government lands, is done erroneously. He further submitted that as per the Settlement Fair Adangal of Paradesipalem, the total extent of the land in Sy. No. 145 with seven sub-divisions is Acs. 4.38 cts, out of which an extent of Ac. 0.87 cts (covered by sub-divisions Sy. No. 145/1 (Ac. 0.52) and Sy. No. 145/3 (Ac. 0.35) is government land and is recorded as poramboke & A.W.D., and the remaining extent of land covered by sub-divisions Sy. No. 145/2 (Ac. 1.60), Sy. No. 145/4 (Ac.0.68), sy. No. 145/5 (Ac. 0.55), Sy. No. 145/6 (Ac.0.38) and Sy. No. 145/7 (Ac.0.30), is ziroithi/patta land. Considering the stand taken by the respondent the respondents in the counter, that the land in question, is ziroithi/patta land, this Court on 29.07.2008, on the representation made by the learned Government Pleader for Revenue that he will give instructions to respondent No.6- Sub Registrar to register the documents to be presented by the petitioner for registration, directed the petitioner to approach respondent No.6 and present the document for registration, and directing so, posted the matter for orders. Today, the learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that in pursuance of the orders of this Court, the petitioner approached respondent No.6-Sub Registrar, and that he had received and registered ﬁve documents ﬁled by the petitioner, and in fact, the petitioner would ﬁle two more documents for registration. Having heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue for the respondents, and having regard to the stand taken by respondent No.5 in the counter, that the lands in question is ziroithi/patta land, and that out of ﬁve documents the Sub-Registrar has already registered three documents, and that he would register the other two documents also, I deem it appropriate to dispose of the writ petition with the following directions: If the petitioner presents the other two documents for registration in respect of the land in question, which is admitted by the respondents to be zirothi/patta land, respondent No.6-Sub Registrar, shall receive and process the said documents for registration, in accordance with law, if they are otherwise in order, without raising any objection to the eﬀect that the land in question is government land. Accordingly the writ petition is disposed of. No costs. ________________ N.V. RAMANA, J. Dated: 8th September, 2008. KSR