V. RAJAGOPALA REDDY, J.

( 1 ) THE Writ Appeal by the Commissioner and Inspector General of registration and Stamps and the Sub-Registrar, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad, is brought under Clause 15 of the Letters Patent, challenging the judgment of the learned single Judge in Writ Petition No. 20631 of 1996.

( 2 ) THE learned single Judge, while allowing the writ petition filed by the petitioner-respondent issued a writ in the nature of mandamus directing the respondents-appellants to register the sale document taking the value shown in the Basic Value Register prior to 1-8-1996 as the market value of the property in question.

( 3 ) FACTS in brief are as under: The petitioner-respondent, having purchased plot No. 296, admeasuring 480 Sq. Yds. , at Road No. 10, Jubilee Hills, hyderabad, presented the sale document on 9-8-1996 before the Sub-Registrar, banjara Hills, the 1st appellant herein. The petitioner-respondent set out the market value of the plot at Rs. 6,01,000/- on the basis of the value fixed in the Basic Value Register. The Sub-Registrar has passed the receipt and given no. P 1344/96 to the document, pending registration of the document. On 9-9-1996 the Sub-Registrar sent a lett

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