JUDGMENT

Prathiba M. Singh, J. (Oral)

1. This hearing has been done through hybrid mode.

2. The present petition was filed by the Petitioners seeking directions to the Respondents to make an inquiry about the missing records of volume 8486 and 8487 of additional book no. 1 of the Respondent No.4 - Sub-Registrar-III, District-Central, Asaf Ali Road, Delhi, having recording of execution and registration of lands of the Petitioner No.1 - Monk Estates Pvt. Ltd. and also to re-construct the said missing volumes.

3. The present case relates to a large quantum of records which had gone missing from the Office of the Sub-Registrar-III (District Central), Delhi way back in 2005. On 10th January, 2023 this issue was unearthed before the Court while hearing the present petition. On the said date, based on the information which was available on the records, the following directions were issued:

"9. A perusal of the record placed before the Court shows that several volumes from the office of the Respondent No.4 had gone missing in the year 2005 and it is only 14 years later in 2019 that an FIR had been registered.

10. This petition raises issues of enormous concern, inasmuch as the FIR, which h