THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION NO.22481 OF 2002 DATED 14th FEBRUARY, 2011 BETWEEN: V.Syamal Rao and others. … Petitioner A n d The District Registrar of Assurances, Ranga Reddy District, and others. …Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION NO.22481 OF 2002 O R D E R The petitioners claim to have purchased various extents of land in Sy.Nos.78, 80, 82 (part) and 86 (part) of Kondapur Village, Serilingampally Mandal, Ranga Reddy District, under registered sale deeds. Their vendors, in turn, are said to have purchased the land from Chintala Shivalingam, Chintala Shivaiah and others. It is their case that the sale transactions in their favour would be covered by the exemption granted by the Government of Andhra Pradesh for sale of land in peripheral areas under G.O.Ms.No.733, Revenue (UC.II) Department, dated 31.10.1988. Their grievance in the present writ petition is that the authorities under the Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Act, 1976 (for brevity, ‘the Act of 1976’) issued instructions to the registration authorities not to entertain documents if the same pertained to lands purchased from Chintala Pochaiah and others. They filed the present writ petition seeking a declaration that the lands alienated in terms of G.O.Ms.No.733 dated 31.10.1988 would not be hit by the instructions of the Special Officer and Competent Authority, Urban Land Ceilings, Hyderabad, in his letter dated 17.05.2001 and a consequential direction to the registration authorities to accept and register the documents presented by them in respect of the subject lands. While so, it is now brought to my notice that W.P.Nos.12939 and 696 of 2005 pertaining to the same lands were disposed of by this Court by common order dated 08.04.2009. A copy of the said common order is placed before me and reflects that this Court took note therein of the fact that proceedings were initiated under the Act of 1976 in respect of the lands admeasuring Ac.237.27 guntas in Sy.Nos.78 to 93 of Kondapur Village, Serilingampally Mandal, Ranga Reddy District, belonging to Chintala Pochaiah and nine others and were processed upto the stage of declaration under Section 10(3) of the Act of 1976 vide Gazette Publication No.98 dated 17.05.2004. However, as the possession of the said land was not taken over thereafter and in the meanwhile, the Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Repeal Act, 1999 came into force in the State of Andhra Pradesh with effect from 27.03.2008, the provisions of the Act of 1976 were rendered inoperative in so far as the subject lands were concerned. In that view of the matter, this Court dismissed the writ petitions as infructuous observing that any disputes or claims between the parties inter se would be subject to determination by the appropriate fora before which such disputes were presented or pending. In the light of the aforestated order, it is clear that the proceedings under the Act of 1976 abated in so far as the subject lands in Kondapur Village, Serilingampally Mandal, Ranga Reddy District, are concerned. That being so, there is no further necessity for this Court to adjudicate as to whether the sales in favour of the petitioners were covered by G.O.Ms.No.733 dated 31.10.1988. The direction of the Special Officer/Competent Authority, Urban Land Ceilings, Hyderabad, to the registration authorities in respect of these lands also would stand nullified upon the abatement of the proceedings initiated in respect of these lands under the Act of 1976. Subject to the above observations, the writ petition is closed. There shall be no order as to costs. -------------------------- SANJAY KUMAR,J 14th FEBRUARY, 2011 PGS THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION NO.22481 OF 2002 14th FEBRUARY, 2011