THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K.SARATH

ORDER:

Heard learned Counsel for the petitioner and Smt. S.Sravanthi, learned Assistant Government Pleader for Stamps and Registration appearing for the respondents and perused the material on record. With their consent, this writ petition is disposed of at the stage of admission itself.

2. The case of the petitioner is that he has filed an application on the file of the respondent No.3 on 04.08.2025 stating that he has fulfilled all the requirements for validating the Agreement of Sale, dated 23.05.2017 requesting him to validate the same, as per the provisions of the Indian Stamp Act, 1899 (“the Act, 1899” for brevity). It is the further case of the petitioner that similar issue fell for consideration in a batch of Writ Petitions vide discussing elaborately with regard to Chapter IV, in particular under Sections 35, 40, 41 and 41A of the Act, 1899, held that the Registrar or the Officer or the person entitled to receive evidence are under obligation to collect the deficit stamp duty or deficit stamp duty with penalty, vide common order, dated 28.02.2023. While referring to the said provisions, this Court allowed the said batch of Writ Petitions directing the respective District Registrar/Sub-Registrar to receive the subject documents and process the same for the purpose of collection of deficit stamp duty with or without penalty, depending on facts of the case under the provisions of Chapter 2 IV of the Act, 1899 and complete the process within a period of four (4) weeks from the date of presentation of such document by the respective petitioners.

3. Learned Assistant Government Pleader for Stamps and Registration appearing on behalf of the respondents would submit that the State has not filed any appeals against the said common order, dated 28.02.2023 passed said order has attained finality. Learned Assistant Government Pleader has also not disputed that the facts of the present Writ Petition are squarely covered by the common order, dated 28.02.2023 passed in W.P.No.42908 of 2022 and batch.

4. In view of the said submissions, the Writ Petition is disposed of in terms of the common order dated 28.02.2023 in W.P.No.42908 of 2022 and batch and for the reasons alike. There shall be no order as to costs.

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

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JUSTICE K.SARATH Dated: 25.09.2025

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