HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.25124 of 2010 Date 06.10.2010 Between: Dudekula Balahaze. ..... PETITIONER AND The Sub-Registrar, Nandyal, Office at Taluq office, Nandyal, Kurnool District. .....RESPONDENT Counsel for the Petitioner : Sri Dudekula Balahaze (party-in-person) Counsel for Respondent : Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.25124 of 2010 ORDER: This Writ Petition is filed for a Mandamus to declare the action in keeping the registration pertaining to file No.9 of 2010 pending as illegal and arbitrary. I have heard the petitioner, who appeared in person, and the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue. According to the petitioner, he has purchased an extent of 129.22 sq. yards in Sy.No.359/B of Nunepalli Village, Nandyal Mandal, Kurnool District from one Shaik Abdul Sattar S/o.S.Mastan Saheb and Shaik Shahirabee W/o.Shaik Abdul Sattar under a registered sale deed dated 09.02.2010. The petitioner has presented the said sale deed before respondent No.1 for registration. Having taken the document and assigned file number for registration, the respondent has not been registering the document on the ground that the vendor is absconding. Under Section 71 of the Registration Act, 1908 (for short ‘the Act’) if the respondent refused to register a document, except on the ground that the property to which it relates is not situate within his sub-district, he shall make an order of refusal and record his reasons therefor in his Book No.2 and endorse the words “registration refused” on the document and, on application made by any person executing or claiming under a document, he shall without payment and unnecessary delay give him a copy of the reasons so recorded. In the light of this provision, if the respondent has valid reasons for refusal to register the documents, he shall comply with the provisions of Section 71 of the Act. As evidently he has not followed this procedure, he is directed to comply with the provisions of Section 71 of the Act and communicate his decision to the petitioner within a period of one month from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. Subject to the above direction, the Writ Petition is disposed of. As a sequel to disposal of the main petition, WPMP.No.32113 of 2010 filed by the petitioner for interim relief is disposed of as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY,J Date:06.10.2010 usd