THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE L. NARASIMHA REDDY WRIT PETITION No. 28041 of 1996 DATED: 17.02.2006 Between: A.Raghotham Rao. … PETITIONERS AND The Sub Registrar and another. … RESPONDENTS ORDER: This writ petition is filed assailing the order, dated 05.11.1996, passed by the 1st respondent, requiring the petitioner to appear before him, in the context of payment of deficit stamp duty on the sale deed, dated 25.07.1996, executed in favour of the petitioner herein. In relation to another document, executed in favour of the petitioner, an identical notice was issued. The petitioner filed W.P.No.28040 of 1996 against the same. The Writ Petition was disposed of by this Court on 29.07.2003, with a direction to the 1st respondent herein to refer the matter to the Collector under Section 47-A(1) of the Indian Stamp Act, 1899 (for short ‘the Act’). The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that in compliance with the directions issued by this Court in W.P.No.28040 of 1996, the 1st respondent has referred the matter in relation to the document, which is the subject matter of this writ petition also, to the Collector, under Section 47-A(1) of the Act, and that the matter has since been settled. It is stated that the document, in question, was released, on payment of the stamp duty adjudicated by the Collector. In that view of the matter, nothing remains to be decided in this Writ Petition. Hence, the Writ petition is closed. There shall be no order as to costs. __________ 17.02.2006 Jsu