THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K.SARATH

ORDER:

Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned

Assistant Government Pleader for Stamps and Registration appearing for the respondents. With their consent, this writ

petition is disposed of at the stage of admission.

2. Aggrieved by the action of the respondent No.3 in refusing to receive, register and release the sale deed in respect of the Residential House bearing No.42-202/2 in Sy.No.422/part admeasuring 90 sq. yds consisting of ground floor together with a built up area of 400 sft of RCC, situated at Mahatma Gandhi Nagar, Moula-Ali, under Malkajgiri Circle, within the limits of GHMC, Medchal Malkajgiri District, the petitioners filed the present writ

petition.

3. Learned Assistant Government Pleader for Stamps and Registration submits that without presenting the document, the petitioners have approached this Court

seeking registration of the document. If the petitioners present the same before the Registering authority, the respondents will receive the same and follow due procedure as contemplated under Section 71 of the Registration Act, 1908 (for short, ‘the Act, 1908’).

4. The Section 71 of the Act, 1908, reads as follows:

Reasons for refusal to register to be recorded.—

(1) Every Sub-Registrar refusing to register a document, except on the ground that the property to which it relates is not situated within his sub- district shall make an order of refusal and recorded his reasons for such order in his Book No.2, and endorse the words “registration refused” on the document; and, on application made by any person executing or claiming under the document, shall, without payment and unnecessary delay, give him a copy of the reasons so recorded.

(2) No registering officer shall accept for registration a document so endorsed unless and until, under the provisions hereinafter contained, the document is directed to be registered.

5. In view of the above made submissions coupled with the provision under Section 71 of the Act, 1908, this writ petition is disposed of directing the Registering Authority to receive, register and release the subject document, subject to the petitioners complying with the provisions of the Act, 1908 as well as the Indian Stamp Act, 1899. It will be open to the Registering Authority to refuse the document presented before him, if he has any objection, by duly assigning reasons in support of such decision and communicate the said decision to the petitioners. It is made clear that this Court has not expressed any opinion on merits of the case as to the entitlement of the petitioners to get the subject document registered. There shall be no order as to costs.

6. Miscellaneous Petitions, if any, pending in this writ petition shall stand closed.

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JUSTICE K.SARATH Date:22.04.2025 sj