HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE L.NARASIMHA REDDY WRIT PETITION No. 12622 of 2007 Dated 25th June 2007 Between: Devaguptapu Sanyasi Raju and another. …Petitioners and Govt of A.P. and another. …Respondents HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE L.NARASIMHA REDDY WRIT PETITION No. 12622 of 2007 O R D E R: The petitioners claim to have presented a sale deed executed in their favour in relation to a plot of land in Survey Nos.33/1, 33/2. 31/4, 31/1 and 34 of Adivivaram Village and Panchayat, Chinagadili Mandal, Visakhapatnam District, before the second respondent for registration. It is alleged that the document is said to have been received vide acknowledgement No.P/845/2005 and kept pending. The grievance of the petitioners is that the document has not been released, so far. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned Government Pleader for Revenue. The second respondent has received the document presented by the petitioners and in fact, had kept the same pending. Such a course should be adopted, only to avail time to verify necessary facts or to gather information. The document cannot be kept pending for years together. In case, the document cannot be admitted to registration, for any reasons, that can be traceable to Section 22-A of the Registration Act, as amended through Act 19 of 2007, or Section 5 of the A.P. Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfer) Act, 1977, the same need to be communicated to the petitioners forthwith, so that they can work out their remedies. For the foregoing reasons, the Writ Petition is disposed of, directing the second respondent to release the document to the petitioners or communicate the reasons for not registering the document, within a period of ten (10) days from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. There shall be no order as to costs. _________ 25.06.2007 Note: Issue C.C. in three days. (B/o) JSU