* THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAVI NATH TILHARI +C.R.P.No.3145 OF 2024 % 07.01.2025 #Nagireddy Tulasi Katyayini ……Petitioner And:

$Bathina Sujatha ….Respondent.

!Counsel for the petitioner: Sri A.K. Kishore Reddy ^Counsel for the respondent : Sri P.Vivek Gist:

>Head Note:

? Cases referred:

1. 1987 SCC OnLine All 444 : AIR 1987 All 360

2. 2021 SCC OnLine All 655

3. 1981 SCC OnLine AP 31

HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH * * * *

C.R.P.No.3145 OF 2024 DATE OF JUDGMENT PRONOUNCED: 07.01.2025 SUBMITTED FOR APPROVAL:

THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAVI NATH TILHARI

1. Whether Reporters of Local newspapers Yes/No may be allowed to see the Judgments?

2. Whether the copies of judgment may be Yes/No marked to Law Reporters/Journals

3. Whether Your Lordships wish to see the Yes/No fair copy of the Judgment?

____________________ RAVI NATH TILHARI, J APHC010559742024 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI [3299]

(Special Original Jurisdiction)

TUESDAY ,THE SEVENTH DAY OF JANUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAVI NATH TILHARI CIVIL REVISION PETITION NO: 3145 OF 2024 Between:

Nagireddy Tulasi Katyayini ...PETITIONER AND Bathina Sujatha ...RESPONDENT Counsel for the Petitioner:

1. A K KISHORE REDDY Counsel for the Respondent:

1. P VIVEK The Court made the following:

ORDER:-

1. The copy of the C.R.P was not served to the learned counsel for the respondent/ caveator. Such objection was raised, upon which vide order dated 20.12.2024 Registry was directed to submit the report, that once there was caveat, how could the C.R.P be numbered without serving the copies of the petition to the caveator.

2. The Registry submitted a report as follow:

“It is respectfully submitted the learned counsel for the petitioner filed CRP (SR) without copy of the Caveat petition and did not make any endorsement regarding service to the other side counsel. And the Counsel for the petitioner paid batta at the time of filing the above CRP(SR).

Hence, the Registry has processed the CRP and numbered and posted without having the knowledge about the caveat petition. After numbering the CRP No.3145 of 2024 was sent to CRP Section, and the CRP Section has put up the caveat in the bundle”.

3. Not being satisfied with the office report by order dated 27.12.2024, the Registrar (Judicial) was directed to submit the report “clearly pointing out the procedure for filing the Caveat; as also its intimation to C.R.P Section and to Registry. It shall be indicated if the caveat is not reported to the Registry, while processing the C.R.P”.

4. The Registrar (Judicial) has submitted a detailed report dated

02.01.2025, relevant portion, of which reads as under:-

“S.O.215-5: CAVEATS: Soon after the Cases are received from Scrutiny Officers, it shall be verified whether the Departments mentioned in the Cases are as per the existing provisions, and then, the Cases be handed over to the Caveats Seat, for verification.

The Assistant, who looks after Caveats, as soon as he receives them daily from the Scrutiny Officers in the evening, shall make necessary entries in the Caveats Register (J.R.11) to be maintained, District-wise. Immediately after receipt of fresh Cases during the day, the Caveats Assistant has to verify each and every Case and find out whether any Caveats are pending in respect of Case on hand from the Caveats Register (J.R.11). In case, any Caveat entry is found in the concerned Caveat Register (J.R.11), he has to make necessary entries with regard to the particulars of such fresh Cases in the Caveat Register (J.R.11) as well as in the concerned Case Ledgers (J.R.45). He shall, then, put up the Caveat in the said Case and feed the Name of the Counsel who filed the Caveat in the computer. In Case of non- availability of the Caveat, he has to endorse on the docket of such Cases about the non-availability of the Caveat as „No Caveat‟.

It is also his duty to verify the expiry of „time limit‟, as envisaged in Section 148-A C.P.C, and he has to make necessary entries in the Caveat