IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE PULLA KARTHIK WRIT PETITION No.9607 OF 2026

31^st MARCH, 2026 Between:

Chalikanti Aadilakshmi …Petitioner AND State of Telangana, rep. by its Principal Secretary (Revenue), (Stamps and Registration Department), Secretariat, Saifabad, Hyderabad, and (5) 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. Heard Sri S.Goutham, learned counsel for the petitioner, and Ms. S.Sravanthi, learned Assistant Government Pleader for Stamps and Registration, for the respondents.

3. The present writ petition is filed by the petitioner seeking to declare the action of respondent No.6 in refusing to accept and register the cancellation deed in respect of Development Agreement-cum-Irrevocable General Power of Attorney dated 06.08.2021, presented by the petitioner and Koganti Vamseeram pursuant to the compromise decree dated 16.09.2025 passed in O.S. No.158 of 2025 by the learned XV Additional District Judge, Ranga Reddy District at Ibrahimpatnam, as being illegal and arbitrary.

4. Learned Assistant Government Pleader submits that the official respondents will follow the procedure contemplated under Section 71 of the Registration Act, 1908.

5. Section 71 of the Registration 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.

6. In view of the above submissions coupled with the provision under Section 71 of the Registration Act, 1908, this Writ Petition is disposed of directing the Registering Authority to receive and process the document sought to be presented by the petitioner in respect of the subject property, subject to the petitioner complying with the provisions of the Registration Act, 1908 as well as the Indian Stamp Act, 1899. It will be open to the Registering Authority to refuse the registration of the document presented before him, if he has any objection, duly assigning reasons in support of such decision and communicate the said decision to the petitioner. It is made clear that this Court has not expressed any opinion on merits of the case as to the entitlement of the petitioner to get the subject document registered.

Miscellaneous petitions, if any, pending shall stand closed. There shall be no order as to costs.

____________________ PULLA KARTHIK, J Date: 31.03.2026

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