Legal Question in Civil Rights Law in India

1) In order to curb litigations relating to registration of documents, the AP High Court has issued a direction to the registering officers across the state that they should not refuse to receive documents for registration of lands only on the ground that they were included in the prohibitory lists sent by the revenue authorities. Also the reason that the Re-Settlement Register (RSR) contains dots against the column of owner or occupant of the land or that the lands have been described as Assessed Waste Dry (AWD) or as assigned lands should not be the only ground for rejecting the documents.

2) The court also directed the registering officers that they should not insist on production of NOCs as a condition for receiving documents for registration.

3) As for the properties under the prohibitory registers, the registrars should make an endorsement while refusing to receive document specifying reason for such refusal.