Despite granting of time, respondents have neither filed counter affidavit nor reported instructions.

2. The petitioners filed the present Writ Petition feeling aggrieved by the action of respondent No.4 in not receiving the documents sought to be presented by them for registration in respect of land admeasuring Ac.2-40 cents, comprised in Sy.No.15/1 of Bodumalluvaripalle Revenue village, Piler Mandal, Chittoor District.

3. The petitioners have traced their title to registered sale deed dated 11-2-1947 under which their grandfather Khasim Saheb purchased the property. It is the pleaded case of the petitioners that the name of their grandfather was mutated in the revenue records, that after his death his son, Shaik Modin Saheb succeeded to the properties and pattadar passbooks were also issued in favour of the said Shaik Modin Saheb. The petitioners are claiming through the said Modin Saheb as his lineal descendents. When the petitioners have approached respondent No.4 for issuing a certificate of market value, he declined to issue the same stating that the land is classified as Assessed Waste DRY (D.K.T.) as per M.R.O's. List. In support of the above pleas raised by the petition