THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA W.P. No. 4582 of 2008 and C.C. No. 822 of 2008 Oral order: The petitioner states that he is the absolute owner and possessor of land in an extent of Ac. 9.08 gts. in Sy. No. 498/2 of Nagireddypet Village and Mandal, Nizamabad District, having succeeded to the same after the death of his father. The petitioner states that with a view to sell the land, he approached respondent No.3, namely the Sub- Registrar, Yellareddy, who required the petitioner to produce a certiﬁcate from respondent No.4, certifying that the land which he intends to sell, is not a government land. As required, the petitioner states that he obtained Certiﬁcate dated 26.07.2007 from respondent No.4 and approached respondent No.3. However, respondent No.3 again required the petitioner to produce a certiﬁcate from respondent No.2, namely the Joint Collector, Nizamabad. Accordingly, the petitioner made application to respondent No.2 on 25.08.2007, but respondent No.2 vide proceedings dated 13.12.2007, informed respondent No.3 that the land in Sy. No. 498 with an extent of Ac.96.14 gts., as reﬂected in supplementary sethwar, is a poramboke government land is not a patta land, and by mistake it was reﬂected as patta land in revenue records, but in fact, it is a government land. Questioning the said proceedings of respondent No.2 as being illegal and arbitrary, and consequently to direct respondent No.3 to register the sale deeds in respect of the land in question, the petitioner ﬁled the present writ petition. On 04.03.2008, the writ petition came up for admission, and on that day, this Court ordered notice before admission. The learned Government Pleader for Revenue, who took notice for the respondents sought time to ﬁle counter/get instructions. Thereafter, the matter underwent several adjournments. On 03.07.2008, as neither the respondents ﬁled counter nor appeared before the Court, as directed, and as the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue reported no instructions and submitted that respondent No.4-Tahsildar, who has to furnish the instructions has not sent any remarks, this Court took suo motu contempt proceedings against respondent No.4-Tahsildar, and directed issuance on non- bailable warrant. At that point of time, the learned Advocate General appeared for the respondents. Respondent No.4 ﬁled counter on 11.07.2008, and appeared personally before the Court on 16.07.2008, and therefore, the non-bailable warrant issued against him was recalled. Respondent No.4, in his counter has taken a stand that the land in Sy. No. 498 is a government land assigned to various persons, and the petitioner is one of the assignee, and after assignment, it is recorded in the revenue records as patta land, and that the land being an assigned land is heritable and not alienable and all that the order of the Joint Collector says is that since it is a government assigned land, it should be recorded as such in the revenue records. Thereafter, the matter was adjourned several times for counter of the respondents. On 25.08.2008, this Court notice of the letter dated 19.08.2008, addressed by respondent No.4 to the learned Government Pleader for Revenue, wherein he stated that as per the revenue records i.e. Chesala Pahani from 1956-59, the land in Sy. No. 498/2, in an extent of Ac.9.08 of Nagireddypet Village and Mandal, is a patta land and that stood in the name of Venkata Reddy S/o. Rami Reddy, who is the father of the petitioner, and considering the fact that the Joint Collector, in his letter to respondent No.3, had informed that the land in question is a government land, directed the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue to ﬁle aﬃdavit of respondent No. 2. Thereafter, the matter was adjourned on three occasions. Ultimately on 13.09.2008, respondent No.2 ﬁled counter, and on 18.09.2008, and considering the stand taken by respondent No.2, this Court passed the following order: Today when the matter has come up, a counter-aﬃdavit is ﬁled by the 2nd respondent-Joint Collector, Nizamabad District, stating that as per the original Sethwar of 1348 fasli (1939) and Wasool Baki Register of 1347 fasli (1938), the land in question was government land, but in the pahani of 1953-54 and Chesala Pahani of 1956-57, 1957-58 and 1958-59, the said land is shown as patta land. The learned Government Pleader for Revenue also submits that the land in question is the government land, and he further submits that he will advise his client to withdraw the letter given to the Sub-Registrar. For production of such order, post after one week. However, despite the aforesaid order, respondent No.2-Joint Collector has not withdrawn the letter dated 13.12.2007 addressed by him to respondent No.3-Sub Registrar. However, the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue appearing on behalf of the respondents submitted that in view of the entries made in the revenue records that the land in question is a patta land, the objection taken by respondent No.2-Joint Collector, in his letter dated 13.12.2007 addressed to respondent No.3-Sub Registrar that the land in question is government land as such, it cannot be registered, is not correct, and submitted that the writ petition may be dispose of with a direction to respondent No.3 to receive and process the documents in respect of the lands in question without reference to the letter dated 13.12.2007 addressed by respondent No.2- Joint Collector to him. In view of the above, the writ petition is allowed. Respondent No.3, namely the Sub Registrar, Yellareddy, Nizamabad, is directed the receive and process the documents to be presented by the petitioner in respect of the land in question for registration, without reference to the letter dated 13.12.2007, addressed by respondent No.2- Joint Collector, Nizamabad, to him, if the same are otherwise in order. In view of allowing of the writ petition, the suo motu proceedings initiated against respondent No.4-Tahsildar, are dropped and respondent No.4-Tahsildar is discharged from contempt, and accordingly the contempt case is closed. No costs. ________________ N.V. RAMANA, J. Dated: 25th September, 2008. KSR