Nivasam Mutual Aided House Building Society Ltd. vs State of Andhra Pradesh

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2018 Supreme(SC) 671

KURIAN JOSEPH, MOHAN M.SHANTANAGOUDAR, NAVIN SINHA
Nivasam Mutual Aided House Building Society Ltd. – Appellant
Versus
State of Andhra Pradesh – Respondent

Advocates:
Advocate Appeared:
Ms. V. Mohana, Mr. V.V.S. Rao, Mr. M. A. Chinnasamy, Ch. Leela Sarveswar, Mr. N. Chandrasekhar Reddy, Mr. Krishan Pal Mavi, Ms. Vijayshree Pattnaik, Mr. A.V.S. Raju, Mr. Somanatha Padhan, Ms. Anjana Prakash Desai, Mr. Namit Saxena, Ms. Taruna Ardhendumauli Prasad, Mr. Subromaniam Prasad, Mr. Sridhar Potaraju, Mr. N. Chandra Shekhar Reddy, Mr. Prabhat Kumar, Ms. Sindoora VNL, Mr. Udai Khanna, Ms. Ankita Sharma, Mr. Arjun Singh, Mr. H.N. Nagmohan Das, Mr. Mullapudi Rambabu, Mr. N. Eswara Rao, M/S. M. Rambabu And Co., Mr. V. Sridhar Reddy, Mr. Vikram Deep Sharma, Mr. Goli Ramakrishna, Mr. Sumanth Nookala, Mr. Abhijit Sengupta, Mr. Shaik Mohamad Haneef, Mr. Rahul Singh, Mr. K. Sita Rama Rao, Mr. Shree Pal Singh, Mr. Sadineni Ravi Kumar, Mr. G. N. Reddy, Mr. Y. Raja Gopala Rao, Mr. Anil Kumar Tandale, Mr. Ashok Anand, Mr. D. Abhinav Rao, Mr. Dhirendra Kumar Mishra, Mr. P.B. Reddy, Mr. M. Mukherjee, Mrs. Sarla Chandra, Mr. Guntur Prabhakar, Ms. Prerna Singh, Mr. Gautam Parashar, Mr. K.L. Sastry, Mr. M. Nageshwara Rao, Mr. M. Bala Shivudu, Dr. Vinod Kumar Tiwari, Mr. K. Rajendran, Mr. Roshan Chapagain, Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, Mr. P. Venkat Reddy, Mr. Prashant Kr. Tyagi, M/S. Venkat Palwai Law Associates, Mr. Sridhar Potaraju, Mr. Sadineni Ravi Kumar, Mr. Y. Raja Gopala Rao, Mr. Abhijit Sengupta

JUDGMENT :

Kurian, J.

1. Diary No. 13921 of 2018 and SLP (C) No. 18215 of 2017 are taken on record. Permission to file Special Leave Petition(s) is granted.

2. Delay condoned. Leave granted.

3. In all these cases, the appellants are aggrieved since they have not been permitted to effect registration of the transfer of their property. According to the learned counsel appearing for the State, the property concerned as per Section 22 A (1) (a) to (d) of Registration Act, 1908 (in short, “the Act”) appears either in the list published on the website or in the notification under Section 22 A (1) (e). Sh. V.V.S. Rao, learned senior counsel, points out that the people in the rural areas in the State may not have access to the website. The learned counsel for the State points out that a copy of the list is available also with all the Sub-Registrars across the State. Therefore, it is open to the appellants to verify whether they are either in the list prepared by the authorities concerned or as notified in terms of Section 22A(1)(e) of the Act.

4. The Full Bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court, in the impugned Judgment, had formulated the following two questions :-

“1. What are the pre-requisite

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2018 Supreme(SC) 671

KURIAN JOSEPH, MOHAN M.SHANTANAGOUDAR, NAVIN SINHANivasam Mutual Aided House Building Society Ltd. – AppellantVersusState of Andhra Pradesh – Respondent

KURIAN JOSEPH, MOHAN M.SHANTANAGOUDAR, NAVIN SINHA
Nivasam Mutual Aided House Building Society Ltd. – Appellant
Versus
State of Andhra Pradesh – Respondent