IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE PULLA KARTHIK WRIT PETITION No.9883 OF 2024

10^th FEBRUARY, 2026.

Between:

Neeli Karunakar.

…Petitioner AND The State of Telangana, Rep. by its Principal Secretary (Revenue), Secretariat, Hyderabad and 4 others.

… Respondents

O R D E R :

This Writ Petition is filed challenging the action of the Registering Authorities in refusing to receive and register the Partition Deed presented by the petitioner in respect of the subject property i.e., House bearing No.27-012, admeasuring 240 square yards with a plinth area of 1080 sq. feet R.C.C., and a temporary shed with a plinth area of 100 sq. feet of A.C.C., in ground floor, a temporary shed with a plinth area of 100 sq. feet of A.C.C., in First Floor in Sy.No.220 situated at Gajularamaram Village, Quthbullapur Mandal, Ranga Reddy District now Medchal-Malkajgiri District, based on the Gazette Notification R.R. No.83, dated 25.09.2013.

2. Heard Sri K.Ravinder Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Government Pleader for Stamps and Registration for the respondents.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the subject matter of this Writ Petition is squarely covered by the common order dated 22.03.2024 passed by this Court in W.P. Nos.9645 of 2021 and 26353 of 2023. Learned counsel further submits that this Court, while granting interim order dated 28.04.2021 in W.P. No.9645 of 2021, had stipulated a condition not to resort to further conveyance of the subject property without leave of this Court and similarly in W.P. No.26353 of 2023 this Court, while granting interim order dated 22.09.2023, had prohibited the parties from proceeding with further conveyance of the property except on obtaining required permission from this Court. In the present Writ Petition also, this Court, while granting interim order dated 19.04.2024, had directed the Registering authorities to register the subject document with one of the conditions that the parties are prohibited from proceeding with further conveyance of the property except on obtaining required permission from this Court. Subsequently, in pursuance of said interim order, the Registering authorities have registered the subject document and as on today, on behalf of the respondents/Registering authority no counter has been filed.

4. Learned Government Pleader appearing for the respondents did not dispute the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner.

5. At this juncture, it is significant to note that the Division Bench of this Court vide its common order dated 19.10.2023 passed in W.P. No.28300 of 2007 and batch had dealt with the validity of Section 22-A of the Act as incorporated in the Registration Act, 1908 and the Amended Act, 19 of 2007 with effect from 20.06.2007 and had upheld the validity of the Section 22-A of the Act.

6. Having gone through the material made available on the record and the submissions made by the learned counsel on either side, it is essential and necessary to extract the relevant paragraph Nos.23 to 32 of the common order dated 22.03.2024 passed by this Court in W.P. Nos.9645 of 2021 and 26353 of 2023, which reads as under:

“23. From a perusal of the Notification in R.R. No.83, dated 25.09.2013, the subject lands were notified under Section 22-

A (1)(a) for the purpose of Section 22-A(1). It is only a notice given inviting objections and suggestions on the above proposal from all persons who are likely to be affected thereby for being taken into consideration by the Government. The details of the properties mentioned in the annexure states that the subject lands are Government lands.

24. Section 22-A (1) (e) of the Act manifests that any documents or class of documents pertaining to the properties, the State Government may, by notification prohibit the registration in which avowed or accrued interests of Central and State Governments, Local Bodies, Educational, Cultural, Religious and Charitable Institutions,