ATHIKARI SUBBA REDDY v. THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION

CIVIL APPEAL NO. OF 2024 (Arising out of SLP(Civil) No.36603/2017)

1. Leave granted.

2. Application (IA No.76034/2024) for substitution is

allowed after condoning the delay and setting aside the

abatement. Cause title be amended accordingly.

3. When the matter was taken up for hearing, learned

State counsel has pointed out a decision of this Court in

Siri Nivasam Mutual Aided House Building Society Limited

and others vs. State of Andhra Pradesh and others, (2018)

16 SCC 786, to, inter alia, submit that the judgment

rendered by a full-Bench of the High Court, which is

impugned in the instant appeal, has since been set aside

and the matter has been remitted to the High Court for

fresh adjudication.

4. We find from paragraph 6 of the cited decision that

it was brought to the notice of this Court that the main

matter pertaining to vires of Section 22-A inserted in

the Registration Act, 1908 (in short, the “1908 Act”),

was pending before the High Court. It was also pointed

out that all the contentions, which were sought to be

raised in matters like the one in hand, were the subject-

matter of consideration before the High Court. The

operative part of the cited decision reveals that this

Court eventually remanded the ca...