HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE L. NARASIMHA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.4505 of 2009 ORDER: The petitioner purchased the land admeasuring Ac.2.00 and Ac.1.00 in Survey No.70 of Kothavalasa Village, Bheemunipatnam Mandla, Visakhapatnam District in the years 1981 and 1985 respectively. He intended to sell the lands and for that purpose, he approached the 1st respondent with a request to furnish necessary particulars, be it, as to stamp duty, registration charges and the permissibility of the registration of transaction. The 1st respondent informed the petitioner that the land in Survey No.70 of Kothavalasa Village is included in the notification dated 20.06.2003 issued by the District Collector, Visakhapatnam, 2nd respondent herein, in exercise of power under Section 22-A of the Registration Act (for short ‘the Act’) and its classification is mentioned as ‘Gayalu’. The petitioner challenges the notification insofar as it includes the land in Survey No.70. It is stated that the patta was granted under Section 11-A of the Estates Abolition Act in favour of his vendor and there is no basis for treating it as Government land. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Government Pleader for Revenue. Section 22-A of the Act, as it stood earlier, empowered the District Collectors to publish notifications indicating the lands as regards which registration of transactions is prohibited. That Section was quashed as ultra vires. The Act was further amended adding a new provision with the same number. Apart from providing further details, the Section validates the notifications that were issued under the earlier provision. Therefore, the notification dated 20.06.2003 issued under the provision, which was quashed, stands validated. The petitioner has placed before this Court a copy of Settlement Adangal prepared under the Estates Abolition Act, which is to the effect that the vendor of the petitioner was granted patta over an extent of Ac.5.70 cents of land in Survey No.70 under Section 11-A of that Act. This being the case, the land cannot be treated as Gayalu or the one belonging to Government. It appears that the 2nd respondent was not apprised of this fact, when the Survey No.70 was included in the notification. Even now the petitioner can bring this fact to the notice of the 2nd respondent and necessary corrective steps can be taken. Therefore, the writ petition is disposed of directing that it shall be open to the petitioner to approach the 2nd respondent with a representation to delete the land in Survey No.70 of Kothavalasa Village from the purview of the notification duly enclosing the relevant material. On receiving such application, the 2nd respondent shall take necessary steps within a period of eight weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. There shall be no order as to costs. __________ 05.03.2009 JSU HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE L. NARASIMHA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.4505 of 2009 Date: 05.03.2009 JSU