L. Narasimha Reddy, J.— The petitioner filed OS No.20 of 2003 in the Court of Additional Senior Civil Judge, Tirupati, for the relief of specific performance of two agreements of sale, dated 29.7.1991 and 1.12.1992. During the. trial of the suit, the petitioner sought to file the agreements referred to above. An objection was raised stating that the agreements are not properly stamped and not registered. Therefore, the petitioner filed an application to send the documents to the Collector under the Indian Stamp Act for collection of stamp duty and penalty. It is stated that the authority, to whom the documents were marked, refused to impound them by observing that the property covered by the agreements belongs to Sri Swamy Hathiramji Mutt and obviously, they sought to enforce Section 22A of the Registration Act as amended by A.P. Act 19 of 2007 (for short ‘the Act’). With this background, the petitioner sought to make the documents part of the record once again.

2. On behalf of the respondents, an objection was raised. Therefore, the trial Court heard the matter in detail and passed an order, dated 29.8.2012 refusing to receive the documents. It was observed that the person, w