JUDGMENT

(Prayer: Appeal filed under Clause 15 of Letters Patent against the order dated 19.1.2022 passed in W.P.No.22019 of 2021.)

Munishwar Nath Bhandari, CJ.

This writ appeal has been filed to challenge the order dated 19.1.2022, by which a challenge to the cancellation of a registered document was accepted.

2. It was a case that a settlement deed was submitted for registration with the Sub-Registrar, Arakonam and has been registered. However, after registration of the document, the settlor cancelled the settlement deed unilaterally. It was cancelled and challenged by an aggrieved party i.e. the writ petitioner/non-appellant. The challenge was accepted by the learned Single Judge finding that once a document is registered, the Sub-Registrar has no power to cancel the registration.

3. The appeal has been filed to challenge the order mainly on the ground that the challenge to the cancellation of registration by the Sub-Registrar could not have been made by invoking the jurisdiction of this Court under Article 226 of the Constitution of India. For the aforesaid, remedy lies before the civil court. But ignoring the aforesaid, the learned Single Judge interfered in the cancellation of the