IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI
M. SEETHARAMA MURTI, J.
Kolli Rajesh Chowdary - Appellant
Versus
State of Andhra Pradesh and Ors. - Respondents
WP No. 977 of 2019
Decided On: 07-03-2019
Constitution of India, 1950 – Article 226 – Registration Act, 1908 – Rule 26(i)(k) – Application for Revocation and cancellation of gift deed – Challenging as illegal, arbitrary, violative of principles of natural justice and contrary to provisions of Registration Act, 1908 – Held, Contention needs mention only to be rejected for reason that when cancellation deed or revocation deed unilaterally executed is null and void and that when such transaction is meaningless, it is just and fair to allow writ petition leaving it open to executant of cancellation deed or revocation deed to seek common law remedy by approaching civil Court – Hence liberty is reserved accordingly to non-official respondents – Court did not go into correctness or otherwise of contents of subject cancellation or revocation deed and has set it aside and/or declared it as null and void – Hence Writ petition Allowed. (Para 8 and 9)
Facts of the case:
Application for Revocation and cancellation of gift deed and Challenging as illegal, arbitrary, violative of principles of natural justice and contrary to provisions of Registration Act, 1908
Findings of the case:
Contention needs mention only to be rejected for reason that when cancellation deed or revocation deed unilaterally executed is null and void and that when such transaction is meaningless, it is just and fair to allow writ petition leaving it open to executant of cancellation deed or revocation deed to seek common law remedy by approaching civil Court – Hence liberty is reserved accordingly to non-official respondents – Court did not go into correctness or otherwise of contents of subject cancellation or revocation deed and has set it aside and/or declared it as null and void
Result: Writ petition Allowed.
M. Seetharama Murti, J.
1. This writ petition, under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, is filed by the petitioner, seeking verbatim the following relief:
“...to issue a writ, order or direction, more particularly one in the nature of writ of mandamus declaring the action of the 2nd respondent in registering the Deed of Revocation/cancellation, dated 29.9.2017 vide document No. 4581/2017, dated 3.10.2017 executed by the respondent No. 4, where under she cancelled the gift deed dated 20.9.2014 vide document No. 3876/2014 executed by her in favour of the petitioner herein as illegal, arbitrary, violative of principles of natural justice and contrary to the provisions of the Registration Act, 1908 and the rules made there under including Rule 26(i)(k) and also declare the subsequent registered sale deed document No. 5136/2017, dated 6.11.2017 executed by respondent No. 4 in favour of respondent No. 5 as sham and nominal and that those documents are null and void and not enforceable and pass such other order or orders in the interests of justice.”
2. I have heard the submission of the learned Counsel appearing for the petitioner; and, of the learned Government Pleader for Stamps & Registration appearing for the respondents 1 to 3.
2A. In view of the legal position relied upon by the learned Counsel appearing for the petitioner and the learned Government Pleader, this Court is of the considered view that no notice is necessary to the non-official respondents 4 and 5; and, that the writ petition can be disposed of having regard to the submissions of the learned Counsel appearing for the petitioner and of the learned Government Pleader.
2B. I have perused the material record.
3. The case of the petitioner, in brief, is this: 'The 4th respondent is the paternal grandmother of the petitioner. The 5th respondent is his aunt, being wife of his paternal uncle. The 4th respondent possessed certain movable and immovable properties of her own. She had settled on the petitioner her immovable property viz., Acs. 3.24 cents of dry land in Sy. No. 255/1 of Muppalla Village, Chanderlapadu Mandal, Krishna District, by executing a registered gift settlement deed, dated 20.9.2014, bearing Document No. 3876 of 2014. The said gift settlement deed was executed out of love and affection she had for the petitioner, who is the son of her elder son, and with a view to provide the said property for his livelihood. The gift was accepted and the possession of the property was delivered to the petitioner on the same day. Thereafter, the petitioner made an online application, on 9.5.2015, before the 3rd respondent and paid the requisite fee and requested for mutation of the said property in his name in the revenue records and for issuance of pattadar pass book. The same was acknowledged vide a Receipt No. 3310848. Since the date of the gift settlement deed, the petitioner is in continuous possession and enjoyment of the above said property covered by the said deed. In the absence of assured irrigation sources to the said land, the petitioner used to raise only one crop per year depending upon the monsoon. On the suggestion of the neighboring ryots, he got established a bore-well in the land to enable him to raise two crops per year. In order to meet the expenses for establishing the bore-well and the submersible motor etcetera, he had applied for an Encumbrance Certificate. The same was received, on 25.1.2019. He was surprised to notice that the 4th respondent, having executed a deed of cancellation, dated 29.9.2017, registered the same, on 3.10.2017, and revoked the gift settlement deed, dated 20.9.2014, executed by her in favour of the petitioner. The petitioner also noticed that, after execution of such cancellation deed, she had further executed a sale deed, dated 28.10.2017, in favour of the 5th respondent and registered it, on 6.11.2017. Since the property in question was transferred in favour of the petitioner with absolute rights by the 4th resp
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