Prohibited Property List (Section 22A) in Andhra Pradesh
The list of properties that a sub-registrar is legally barred from registering — government, endowment, waqf, assigned and court-attached land — maintained under section 22A of the Registration Act as adopted by the state.
Andhra Pradesh keeps prohibited-property data in more than one register. Searching a single combined or default option can return a clean result without ever touching the second register, which is how a false clean is produced. Search each register explicitly.
Issued through AP Meebhoomi · AP Registration and Stamps (IGRS).
What it proves
- Whether registration of a sale, gift or mortgage of that survey number will be refused outright
- The category of the prohibition — government, endowment, waqf, assigned, ceiling surplus or subject to a court order
What it does not prove
- That an unlisted property is clean. Absence from the list means no prohibition has been notified, not that title is good
- That a listed property is genuinely government land. Bulk digitisation exercises have flagged private patta land in error, and the entry can be contested
How to obtain it
- Search the prohibited-property register on the state registration or land-records portal by district, mandal or taluk, village and survey number
- Search every register the state maintains — urban and agricultural data often sit in separate systems, and checking one is not checking both
- If a hit appears, obtain the underlying government order that placed the survey number on the list; the order, not the portal row, is the fact
Where people get caught
- The prohibition attaches to the survey number, not the owner. A property can show clean ownership, a clean encumbrance certificate and a clean mutation and still be unregisterable
- Where a state splits the data across more than one register, a search interface offering a single combined or default option can return a clean result while never touching the second register. That reads as a false clean
- Because a sub-registrar has no discretion once a survey number is listed, this check belongs before the advance, not before the registration appointment