IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE PULLA KARTHIK WRIT PETITION No.4423 OF 2026

12^th FEBRUARY, 2026.

Between:

Vankudavath Vijay Kumar and another.

…Petitioners AND The State of Telangana, Rep. by its Principal Secretary, Revenue (Stamps & Registration) Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad and 2 others.

… Respondents

O R D E R :

With the consent of both the parties, this Writ Petition is taken up for disposal at the admission stage itself.

2. This Writ Petition is filed aggrieved by the action of respondent No.3 in refusing to register and release the Release Deed vide pending Document P.No.288/2025 dated 29.11.2025 by issuing Refusal Order/Intimation No.P288/R123/700/2025 dated 01.12.2025, as illegal and arbitrary.

3. Heard Sri K.Ravinder Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioners and learned Government Pleader for Stamps and Registration appearing for the respondents.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the issue involved in this Writ Petition is squarely covered by the order passed by this Court in W.P.No.16310 of 2019 and batch dated 11.01.2023 and also recent Judgment of the Hon’ble Supreme Court in K.Gopi v. The Sub-Registrar, 12025 SCC OnLine SC 740 and requested to pass similar order in this Writ Petition also.

5. Learned Government Pleader appearing for the respondents had not disputed the submission made by the learned counsel for the petitioners.

6. The relevant portion of the order in W.P.No.16310 of 2019 and batch dated 11.01.2023 is as under:

13. The power of the registering authority to refuse registration is only, if any of the grounds or objections that are enumerated under the provisions of the Registration Act, 1908, and the Rules made thereunder in particular Sections 19, 20, 21, 22-A, 34, 35 and rule 58 of the Telangana Rules under the Registration Act, 1908, are existing in respect of any such document presented for the registration. Except, the grounds or objections that are enumerated under the provisions of the Registration Act, 1908, the registering authorities have no authority to refuse registration of a document on any other ground. As already noted above, the ground on which the impugned refusal orders in all these batch of Writ Petitions are passed is that the link document shown in the respective documents is a validated and an unregistered document. By looking into a validity of the link document, the registering authority is indirectly verifying whether the executants of the respective documents are having valid title or not to execute the documents in question. As held in the above referred judgment in the case of Dr. Yadla Ramesh Naidu (1 supra), the registering authority is not entitled to go into the title of the parties to the document. It is a settled law

that the vendee under a document will not get a better title than his vendor and in case if vendor is not having a valid title over the property which is the subject matter of a particular document, the vendee under the said document does not get any title over such property and mere registration of such document will not have an effect on the property which is the subject matter of the said document.

14. As rightly conceded by the learned Government Pleader for Stamps and Registration, the registering authorities are not entitled to refuse registration of a document on mere ground that the title of the executants of the respective document is based upon the validated document, though the same is compulsorily registerable document cannot be accepted and such a ground is not available to the registering authorities to refuse registration of a document on that ground.

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19. In the light of the above, this Court is unhesitant to hold that the respondent registering authorities are not entitled to refuse registration of a document on the ground that the link document referred to in the respective document is a validated document or to refuse registration of such document by placing reliance on endo