The petitioners state that they have purchased different extents of land in Survey No.174/1 of Pitchukulagudipadu Village and Survey No.341/B of Markapur Town from the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, 3rd respondent herein under three different sale deeds. The 4th respondent proposed to sell some of the properties situated at Markapur on the one hand and Nellore on the other hand in favour of respondents 5 to 8. Accordingly, four different agreements of sale-cum-G.P.A. dated 15.04.2010 were entered into between the parties and the same were presented before the Joint Sub-Registrar, 1st respondent herein. The documents were received and assigned P.Nos.73 to 76 of 2010. The petitioners raised an objection as to the very permissibility of registration of the documents by the 1st respondent. According to them, the properties were not situated within the jurisdiction of the 1st respondent and registration of such documents is prohibited under Section 28 of the Registration Act (for short ‘the Act’). It is in this background, that the petitioners seek a direction to the 1st respondent not to register the documents bearing P.Nos.73 to 76 of 2010.

The 1st respondent fil