The inspector-general of registration and superintendent of stamps on Tuesday came down heavily on district sub-registrar of stamp offices across state and instructed them that all property papers — which include sale and lease deeds — pending prior to July 1 this year be cleared within 30 days, after issuing three notices at quick intervals.
The order states that the applicant should be informed via three notices if any clarification required. The reasons for the pendency has to be entered on an online intranet platform of the revenue department.
A six-point guideline has been issued for cases where there are genuine reasons for the pendency.
If the applicant does not respond to the sub-registrar office, the revenue officials have been instructed to simply reject the application.
The order copy states that the sub-registrar office concerned “cannot keep property documents pending unnecessarily, unless there are valid reasons as stated under the Registration Act, 1908 and the Registration Rules, 1970.”
The notice also states if the pendency is because of incomplete documentation, then the applicant must be issued three notices before rejecting the application within 30 days.
The order also details the process of informing the applicants or authorities that have issued a restraining order against the execution of the deed document.
“The document can’t be kept in abeyance only on the basis of the stay order of the competent authority or designated court,” states the order.
The order has warned that a document cannot be deferred or kept pending unless there is a designated court that has instructed the sub-registrar office to do so. Documents in which zoning certificate has not been submitted or the documents have been postponed for the purpose of recovering the missing stamp duty shall be sent to the deputy collector (stamp duty assessment).
