The petitioner claims to be the absolute owner and in possession of an extent of Acs. 2-01 cents in Sy. No. 29; Acs. 5-40 cents in Sy. Nos. 239/9 to 20; Acs. 6- 00 cents in Sy. No. 282/1 (old 93/4); Acs. 7-82 cents in Sy. Nos. 277/1 to 11 (old 26/3 & 4); Acs. 17-22 cents in Sy. Nos. 93/2 to 38 and Acs. 19-09 cents in Sy. Nos. 26/1 and 2, totaling Acs. 57-54 cents of Gollapalem village, Sabbavaram Mandal, Visakhapatnam, having purchased the same from his vendors, namely Garlapati Ramesh and others, under six registered sale deeds dated 25.08.2003. The petitioner states that originally his vendors were given ryotwari pattas under Section 4 of Andhra Inams (Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari) Act, 1956 in respect of the above lands.

The learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the petitioner having agreed to sell the aforementioned lands owned by him to one Sri. G. Goutham and others, having received the sale consideration, executed sale deeds in their favour. After executing the sale deeds, when he approached respondent No.1 to ascertain the procedure for getting the sale deeds registered, respondent No.1 informed him that unless VA-3 Adangals relating to the lands