The over jealous attitude of the Revenue and Stamps and Registration officials has been time and again driving the citizens to take recourse to the remedy of judicial review. This case is a paradigm where the property, which was shown as a private property in the extract of Register of Holding, is treated as Government land and the request of the petitioner for its registration was rejected by the registering authority-respondent No.5, which was confirmed by the appellate authority-respondent No.4.

One Guduru Rachaiah is stated to be the absolute owner, possessor and pattadar of agricultural lands admeasuring Ac.4.84 cents in Sy.No.147/2 of Pedda Rangapuram Village, Pulivendla Mandal, Kadapa District. It is the pleaded case of the petitioner that the extract of Register of Holding for the period between 1914 and 1955 would amply corroborate this claim. That the said Rachaiah has sold the land to the petitioner through registered document No.568/72 dated 12.04.1972. When the petitioner intended to sell the property to the third parties in April, 2011, respondent No.5 refused to receive the document on the ground that the land belongs to the Government. The petitioner filed