THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION NO.8679 OF 2011 DATED 1ST APRIL, 2011 BETWEEN A.V.Ramana Reddy …Petitioner and The State of Andhra Pradesh, Rep. by its Principal Secretary, Registration and Stamps Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad and others. …Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION NO.8679 OF 2011 ORDER: The action of the Sub-Registrar, Hindupur, Anantapur District, in not accepting documents for registration in respect of the land admeasuring Ac.2.00 cents in Survey No.81/4 of Kirikera Village, Hindupur Mandal, Anantapur District, is challenged. The refusal to register documents in respect of the subject land is ostensibly on the ground that this is an assigned land. However, the facts set out in the affidavit filed in support of the writ petition disclose that the subject land, though an assigned land, was put to public auction by the District Co-operative Central Bank Limited, Anantapur, in execution of the decree obtained by it against the assignee. The issue is squarely covered by the Judgment of this Court in SUB-REGISTRAR, SRIKALAHASTI, CHITTOOR DISTRICT v. K.GURAVAIAH[1], wherein a Division Bench of this Court held that once assigned land was brought to sale by a Co-operative Society, the exemption under Section 6 of the Andhra Pradesh Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfers) Act, 1977 would apply and the provisions of the said Act would cease to have application to the said land. In that view of the matter, the subject land ceased to be an assigned land for the purpose of the said Act and the petitioner having purchased the said land cannot be subjected to the provisions of the said Act. The Writ Petition is accordingly allowed. There shall be a direction to the Sub-Registrar, Hindupur, Anantapur District, to receive, register and deliver, in accordance with the due procedure, the documents presented for registration by the petitioner in respect of his land admeasuring Ac.2.00 cents in Survey No.81/4 of Kirikera Village, Hindupur Mandal, Anantapur District, without insisting upon certification from the revenue authorities. In the circumstances, there shall be no order as to costs. ____________________ SANJAY KUMAR, J. 1ST APRIL, 2011. VGSR/PGS [1] 2009 (2) ALD 250 (DB)