COMMON ORDER

The prayers of the petitioners in these four cases run on the same lines. All of them assail the action of the registration authorities in receiving for registration the documents executed by Prime Properties, Hyderabad, a registered partnership firm, in favour of Sri Siddharth Infratech and Services Limited, Hyderabad, and ACE HIBC Private Limited, Hyderabad, relating to extents of land in Sy.No.1007 of Kukatpally Village, Balanagar Mandal, Malkajgiri-Medchal District.

In W.P.No.26824 of 2018, the prayer is more specific inasmuch as it sets out the nature of one document, viz., the Joint Development Agreement dated 28.06.2018 entered into by Prime Properties, Hyderabad, with Sri Siddharth Infratech and Services Limited, Hyderabad, and ACE HIBC Private Limited, Hyderabad. The prayers in the other writ petitions, except for W.P.No.27963 of 2018, manifest that the petitioners therein asserted that the registration authorities failed to discharge their statutory obligation under Section 22-A of the Registration Act, 1908 (for brevity, ‘the Act of 1908’), read with Sections 7 , 17 and 19 of the Andhra Pradesh Land Reforms (Ceiling on Agricultural Holdings) Act, 1973 (for bre