Ala Venkata Subbaiah v. State Of Telangana, Rep. Prl. Secy, Rev. Dept

THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE A.RAMALINGESWARA RAO WRIT PETITION No.44650 OF 2017 ORDER:

The petitioner states that he entered into an agreement of sale cum General Power of Attorney with one Manti Mariyamma and presented the document before the fifth respondent for paying requisite stamp duty and registration charges on 08.06.2017. The husband of the vendor acquired the property through registered sale deed in respect of the land in D.No.155/2 to an extent of Acs.0.68 cents from one Kareedu Tirupathaiah, who in turn acquired from his ancestors. After demise of the husband of the vendor, his vendor became the absolute owner and possessor of the land by succession. When the petitioner presented the document, the sixth respondent refused to receive and register the same on the ground that the subject land was included in Prohibition List under Section 22-A of the Registration Act.

This Court in Vinjamuri Rajagopala Chary and Others vs. State of A.P.,1 considered the said issue and held as follows: 35.1 Further, as noticed earlier the State Government is empowered either suo motu or on application to consider the grievances against inclusion of any property in the prohibitory list under Section 22-A of Registration Act and is also empowered to de-notify either in full or in part the notification issued under sub-section (2). In our opinion, the redressal mechanism is available only with respect to notifications published relating to the properties falling under clause (e) of Section 22-A.

Hence, any grievance of the parties with reference to the properties covered by clauses (a) to (d) will have to be questioned by the aggrieved parties only by appropriate proceedings before a competent Court and the adjudication by such Court would be final. Further, so far as notified properties falling under clause (e) are concerned, the redressal mechanism under sub-section (4) of Section 22-A would be able to effectively address the grievance provided the mechanism thereunder is effective, expeditious, fair, and judicious.

Land Records and a retired Judicial Officer of the rank of a District Judge which shall meet periodically to consider the grievances of the persons affected by the notifications. The Committee shall be empowered to examine relevant records and then pass a reasoned order either accepting or rejecting the grievance by either confirming/deleting/modifying any such property from the notified list of properties. In our view, such orders passed by the Committee shall be binding on the State as well as on the aggrieved person and in the event of any of them being aggrieved thereby, they shall have to approach a competent Court of Law for redressal of their grievance. In view of the same, the petitioner is given liberty to approach the said Grievance Redressal Committee for appropriate relief by making proper application.

At this stage, learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the Grievance Redressal Committee was not constituted and there is no one to redress the grievance of the petitioner. If no Grievance Redressal Committee is constituted as directed by this Court, the petitioner is given liberty to submit proper representation to the second respondent within a period of two weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order and the second respondent is directed to pass appropriate orders on the grievance expressed by the petitioner, within a period of four weeks thereafter. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of. Miscellaneous petitions, if any, pending in this writ petition shall stand closed. There shall be no order as to costs.

__________________________ A.RAMALINGESWARA RAO, J 23.01.2018 pln