IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE PULLA KARTHIK WRIT PETITION No.4840 OF 2026

17^th FEBRUARY, 2026.

Between:

Pegadapalli Hari Babu.

…Petitioner AND The State of Telangana, Rep. by its Principal Secretary, Stamps and Registration Department, Secretariat Building, Hyderabad and another.

… 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. Aggrieved by the action of respondent No.2 in issuing Intimation of Refusal bearing No.4 of 2026 dated 06.02.2026 in respect of land admeasuring 2420 sq. yards in Sy.Nos.563/4A and 563/4B of Medipalli Village, Ramagundam Mandal, Peddapalli District, the petitioner filed the present Writ Petition.

3. Heard Sri S.Sridhar, learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Government Pleader for Stamps and Registration for the respondents.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner further submits that in view of the order dated 11.01.2023 passed by this Court in W.P.No.16310 of 2019 & batch and also the recent judgment of the Hon’ble Supreme Court in K.Gopi v. The Sub- Registrar1, the first reason assigned in the impugned order cannot be sustained. Similarly, having regard to the order dated 02.07.2024 in W.P.No.15471 of 2024, the other reason assigned in the impugned order cannot be sustained. Thus, learned counsel for the petitioner contends that in view of the above said orders, the impugned Refusal Order dated

06.02.2026 is liable to be set aside.

5. The above made submission is not seriously disputed by learned Government Pleader appearing for the respondents.

6. A perusal of the record reveals that the registration has been refused on the following two grounds:

I. On verification of the document it is noticed that, there is no registered Link Document bearing Sy. No.563/4A and

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563/4B of 20 guntas and 20 guntas situated at Medipally (PM) village Revenue Shivar and the Principal submitted that the document is open place bearing Sy. No.563/4A and 563/4B admeasuring 2420 Sq.yards Situated at Medipally (PM) village Revenue Shivar of Ramagundam mandal of Peddapalli District.

II. the Commissioner and Inspector General (R&S)

Department Memo.No.G3/3247/2018 Dated : 01.05.2019 has instructed that whenever huge lands showing in square yards and sought to registration the Sub Registrar invariably refer Web land (Dharani portal) and find out the real owners as per revenue records and insist upon NALA conversion certificate of agriculture land into non agriculture land issued by the competent authority. There is no any NALA conversion certificate and as per the G.O.Ms.No.118 Revenue (Registration) Department, dated 28.10.2020, the Tahsildars are appointed as Joint Sub Registrar to register the agriculture lands.

7. Insofar as the objection taken by the authority as to non-availability of registered link document is concerned, it is apt to state that in K.Gopi’s case (supra 1), the Hon’ble Supreme Court held as under:

“The registering officer is not concerned with the title held by the executant. He has no adjudicatory power to decide whether the executant has any title. Even if an executant executes a sale deed or a lease in respect of a land in respect of which he has no title, the registering officer cannot refuse to register the document if all the procedural compliances are made and the necessary stamp duty as well as registration charges/fee are paid. We may note here that under the scheme of the 1908 Act, it is not the function of the Sub-Registrar or Registering Authority to ascertain whether the vendor has title to the property which he is seeking to transfer. Once the registering authority is satisfied that the parties to the document are present before him and the parties admit execution thereof before him, subject to making procedural compliances as narrated above, the document must be registered. The execution and registration of a document have the effect of tr