THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.21821 of 2011 ORDER: The relief sought for in this Writ Petition is to declare the action of the Sub-Registrar, Anantapur District (fourth respondent), in insisting on the production of a No Objection Certificate (NOC) to register the lands in respect of plot Nos.1 to 9 in Sy.No.159 of Anantapur Rural Mandal, Anantapur District, as illegal and arbitrary. The petitioners, who claim to be houseless persons, were assigned house sites on 03.10.1997 of an extent of Ac.0.03 cents each in Sy.Nos.159 to 161 of Anantapur Rural Mandal, Anantapur District, and D-form pattas were issued in their favour. It is their grievance that, since they intend to sell the subject lands, they require an NOC from the Joint Collector, Anantapur District (first respondent) which is not forthcoming. A counter affidavit is filed by the first respondent wherein it is stated that the petitioners were granted house site pattas in the year 1997 with an alienation condition; and, as per condition No.12, the petitioners were entitled to sell their house sites after a period of ten years. Reference is also made, in the counter affidavit, to the memo dated 28.12.1993 issued by the Commissioner & Inspector General, Registration and Stamps instructing District Registrars not to register documents relating to assigned lands unless an NOC is obtained from the Collector. Whether the instructions issued, vide memo dated 28.12.1993, could have been issued by the Commissioner in exercise of his powers of supervision under the Registration Act is doubtful. I, however, do not propose to examine this larger question since Sri K.Srinivas, Learned Counsel for the petitioners, would state that it would suffice, for the purpose of disposal of this Writ Petition, if the first respondent were directed to issue an NOC within a specified timeframe. Learned Counsel would submit that the petitioners would make an application for grant of an NOC within one week from today. In case such an application is filed, the first respondent shall consider granting of an NOC to the petitioners, in terms of the counter affidavit now filed before this Court, within a period of two weeks from the date of receipt of the said application. The Writ Petition is, accordingly, disposed of. However, in the circumstances, without costs. RAMESH RANGANATHAN,J Date:28.11.2011 Note:CC in three days bo usd