1. A proceeding initiated by the District Registrar / the 1st respondent herein in Proceedings Ku.Na. No: 63/B1/99 dated 28.02.2005 and a consequential order passed by the 3rd respondent on 05.04.2008 are called in question, seeking to quash the same and for a consequential direction to the respondents 1 and 2 to release document No: 619/98 dated 25.05.1998.

2. According to the petitioner, by registered sale deeds dated 25.01.1993 and 07.05.1993, the petitioner and one V.K. Mani purchased the lands in question jointly and, thereafter, by a registered partition deed dated 25.05.1998, they have partitioned the said property, which they claim to be agricultural lands. While so, the 2nd respondent in its letter dated 10.04.2000 directed the petitioner to pay a sum of Rs. 1,02,000/- towards deficit stamp duty for Document No: 619 of 1998 for which partition has been effected between the petitioner and the said V.K. Mani. It is the petitioner's case that the said V.K. Mani has assured him that he would approach the respondents

1 and 2 and get the document cleared as the agricultural lands have been treated as commercial lands and in any case, there cannot be a stamp duty of a