Abdulla Sha v. The Sub Registrar
Case brief
What is this about?
Sub Registrar; restraint on registration of documents; writ of mandamus; Article 226 Constitution of India; alienation or encumbrance by third parties; Survey No.3850/2; Thiruthanthoni Village; Woraiyur Taluk; Trichy District; 2208 square feet; Crime No.290 of 2025; Woraiyur Police Station; relief grantable only by jurisdictional civil Court; immediate numbering of plaint and IA; interim relief; ex parte relief; impleading registering authority as respondent in IA alone; disposal of IA within eight weeks; Madurai Bench of Madras High Court; Justice G.R. Swaminathan; disposed of, no costs.
What did the court decide?
Writ petition disposed of with liberty to the petitioner to pursue the relief before the jurisdictional civil Court (plaint and interim application to be numbered immediately; liberty to seek interim relief, including possible ex parte relief; registering authority may be impleaded as respondent in the IA alone; IA to be disposed of within eight weeks); no costs.