THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. RAMULU WRIT PETITION Nos.2827 and 2947 OF 2009 DATED: 02.09.2009 WRIT PETITION No.2827 OF 2009: Between: Smt. P. Santhakumari .. Petitioner And The Joint Sub-Registrar-I, Office of the Registrar, Sri Balaji Regn. District, Tirupati, Chittoor District and others. .. Respondents WRIT PETITION No.2947 OF 2009: Between: D. Gopikrishna .. Petitioner And The Joint Sub-Registrar-I, Office of the Registrar, Sri Balaji Regn. District, Tirupati, Chittoor District and others. .. Respondents COMMON ORDER: In these two writ petitions, the petitioners are aggrieved by the action of the 1st respondent- Joint Sub Registrar-I, Sri Balaji Registration District, Tirupati, in refusing to register the documents i.e. gift settlement deed and sale deed respectively presented by them, by orders dated 18.04.2008, on the ground that the property covered thereunder belongs to Sri Swamy Hathiramji Mutt, Tirupati, and therefore registration of the said documents is prohibited as per Section 22-A of the Registration Act, 1908 (for short ‘the Act’). There is no necessity of going into all the details. In the counter-affidavits filed on behalf of respondents 1 to 3, while reiterating the reasons furnished by the 1st respondent, in his orders dated 18.04.2008, for refusal of the registration of the documents in question, it is stated that, against the said orders dated 18.04.2008 of the 1st respondent, the petitioners have an alternative remedy of appeal under Section 72 of the Act and these writ petitions are, therefore, not maintainable. In view of the aforesaid counter-averments, since an alternative remedy of appeal is available to the petitioners against the impugned orders dated 18.04.2008, the petitioners are directed to avail such alternative remedy of appeal before the competent authority within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. On such appeals being filed, the competent authority shall entertain the same without raising any objection as to the limitation and dispose of the same as per law within a period of two months thereafter. With the above directions, the writ petitions are disposed of. No order as to costs. _________________ JUSTICE C.V. RAMULU 2nd September, 2009. Note:- Issue CC in one week BO IBL