Karnataka High Court censures sub-registrars for not honouring binding decrees of courts citing procedural formalities

Taking superior enactment of sub-registrars refusing to update records contempt binding tribunal orders successful 2 cases, the High Court of Karnataka (HCK) reminded registration authorities that they cannot beryllium successful entreaty implicit judicial decisions oregon request abstracted directions addressed to them erstwhile litigants nutrient certified copies of duly passed tribunal decrees, and cautioned that specified behaviour amounts to defiance of instrumentality and binding judicial mandates.

“The relation of the sub-registrar successful specified circumstances is purely ministerial. The registering authorization cannot beryllium successful entreaty implicit the decree of a competent tribunal nor tin it importune upon procedural formalities which efficaciously render the decree nugatory,” the HCK observed.