HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY W.P.No.29050 of 2010 Date : 14-12-2010 Between : Smt.B.C.Vasumati Devi w/o.late Srinivasulu Reddy and others .. Petitioners and The District Collector, Chittoor, Chittoor District and others .. Respondents Counsel for petitioners : Sri T.Nagarjuna Reddy Counsel for respondents : Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue The Court made the following : ORDER: Despite granting of time, respondents have neither filed counter affidavit nor reported instructions. The petitioners filed the present Writ Petition feeling aggrieved by the action of respondent No.4 in not receiving the documents sought to be presented by them for registration in respect of lands comprised in Sy.No.16 of Bodumalluvaripalle Revenue village, Piler Mandal, Chittoor District. The petitioners have traced their title to registered sale deeds dated 20-12-1922, 12-2-1923, 30-5-1923, 24-5-1978, 23-8- 2006 and 15-2-1982 in respect of the lands in question. It is the pleaded case of the petitioners that their names were also mutated in the revenue records and the Government has no manner of right over the lands in Sy.No.16. It is further pleaded by the petitioners that R.H. Record being maintained by respondent No.4 shows that even by the year 1916, the lands in question were treated as private lands. However, when the petitioners approached respondent No.4 for issuing a certificate of market value, he declined to issue the same stating that the land is classified as Assessed Waste DRY (D.K.T.) as per M.R.O’s. List. In support of the above pleas raised by the petitioners, they have filed photo copies of the registered sale deeds mentioned above and pattadar passbooks issued in the name of the petitioners. Under Section 22-A of the Registration Act, 1908, the category of documents mentioned therein cannot be registered. The lands belonging to the Government fall in one of the categories mentioned in the said provision. This court in P.Suresh and another Vs. A.P. State and others [1], K.M.Kamulla Basha Vs. District Collector, Chittoor [2], Meda Subbarayudu Vs. Sub-Registrar, Rayachoty [3] and S.Zakhir Vs. District Collector, Anantapur [4] held that mere entries in R.S.R. do not constitute conclusive proof of title. In a recent Judgment in Shaik Dudekula Pyari Jan @ Lal Bi and others Vs. The Revenue Divisional Officer, Madanapalli [5], this court reiterated this position following the above mentioned Judgments of this court. From the facts noted above, while there is overwhelming evidence in respect of the petitioners’ plea that the lands are treated as private lands and registered transactions have taken place as far back as 1922 and revenue records such as pattadar passbooks were issued in favour of the petitioners, the stand of the respondents treating the property as Government land, cannot prima facie be appreciated. As held by this Court as noted above, mere entries in R.S.R. or A-Register will not offer conclusive proof of ownership of the land. Therefore, I do not find any justification for respondent No.4 to refuse to receive the documents and register the same. For the above mentioned reasons, the Writ Petition is allowed. Respondent No.4 is directed to receive the documents that may be presented by the petitioners and register the same. Respondent Nos.1 to 3, are however, free to assert their title before the competent court of law, if according to their case, the lands in question belong to the Government. ____________________ C.V.Nagarjuna Reddy.,J Date: 14-12-2010 AM [1] 2009(3) ALD 802 [2] W.P.Nos.27249 & 28393/2007, dt.16-2-2009 [3] W.P.No.11675/2008, dt.30-7-2008 [4] W.P.No.19419/2008, dt.16-2-2009 [5] W.P.No.6016/2010, dated 2-7-2010