THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE ASHUTOSH MOHUNTA WRIT PETITION No. 1632 OF 2011 ORDER: Feeling aggrieved by the inaction of the respondent in entertaining the document sought to be presented by the petitioners for registration, the present writ petition. According to the petitioners, they have jointly purchased the land admeasuring Acs.1.30 ½ cents and Acs.0.02 ½ cents in survey No.907 situated at Epurupalem Village, Chirala Mandal, Prakasam District from its lawful owner Smt. Garapati Annamma wife of Garapati Chenchuramarao for a valuable sale consideration by virtue of a registered sale deed dated 27.11.2006 and due to certain financial constraints they offered to sell away the property but the respondent refused to receive the document without assigning any reason. At the hearing, learned counsel for the petitioners, placed reliance on the order, dated 20.12.2006, in W.P.No.26275 of 2006, wherein this Court observed that when a document is presented, it is incumbent on the part of the Registering Officer to examine the same with reference to Sections 31 to 36 of the Registration Act, 1908 (for short ‘the Act’) and Rules 26 and 58 of the Andhra Pradesh Rules under the Act. On that premise, this Court disposed of the said writ petition filed with a similar grievance, with a direction to the Registering Authority to accept the document presented by the petitioner and consider for registration, and that if for any reason, the document is not registered, he shall record reasons and communicate the same to the party concerned under Section 71 of the Act. It is further observed that if the petitioner feels aggrieved by such communication, he is entitled to file an appeal under Section 72 of the Act and that he is also entitled to avail the remedy of suit under Section 77 of the Act, in the event of passing of an adverse order in the appeal. As the grievance in the present writ petition is identical, the writ petition is disposed of in terms of the said order with a direction to the respondent to receive the document presented by the petitioners and if he has any reason to refuse registration, he shall pass a reasoned order and communicate the same to the petitioners, within a period of two weeks from the date of receipt of document from the petitioners. No costs. ____________________ ASHUTOSH MOHUNTA,J DATE: 31.01.2011 lvl THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE ASHUTOSH MOHUNTA WRIT PETITION NO. 1632 OF 2011 DATE: 31.01.2011