Drive launched to clear unregistered documents

The stamps and Registration Department has launched a special drive to clear documents kept unregistered with the district and sub-registrar offices for various reasons. The drive, which will be in force till end of March, will provide an opportunity for property holders to clear the hurdles and get their property registered. In Hyderabad district alone, there are 1,593 documents involving properties worth Rs 30 crore which have been kept unregistered either with the district registrar office or sub-registrar offices under its purview of which some documents are pending since 1976.
“We will provide an opportunity for the people to resolve the dispute coming in the way of registering their documents during the drive. We will issue refusal orders once the drive is over,” said V. Srinivasulu, Hyderabad district registrar, told this correspondent. The documents are kept unregistered mainly because of the parties disagreeing with the market rate fixed by the government for the particular property, non-appearance of all the signatories of the document, lack of no objection certificate from the Urban Land Ceiling authorities and Income Tax clearance, injunction orders from the court not to register the property, want of spot inspection by the authorities and ambiguity in the schedule of the property shown in the documents.
There are 246 applications pending under section 47-A (parties differing over the market value) of which Banjara Hills sub registrar office recorded a high pendency of 75 applications. “In some cases the market value could have been entered wrongly because of which the market value of the particular property will vary from that of other surrounding properties. If such anomalies are brought to our notice in the drive we will consider the genuine cases and register the documents,” Mr Srinivasulu said.
Similarly, there are 90 documents where Income Tax clearance was not given earlier and 27 documents kept for want of inspections. With the government doing away with both the clauses, mandatory inspection and IT clearance, the document holders can now register their documents by paying the requisite fee. Of the 38 documents that have remained unregistered pending court cases, the officials are of the view that judgements were delivered in many cases but the same was not brought to the notice of the registration department. “If the dispute is with the department, the applicants can approach us settle and it in an amicable manner thus clearing the litigation,” the district registrar said.
The department also asked the document holders falling in the ULC category to produce the ULC clearance certificate or notice served on the ULC authorities with a clear time gap of two months. If the property owners have ULC regularisation under GOs 455 and 456, the order issued by the government regularising the ULC land can be produced for registering the document. “We have issued notices to all the document holders and people have started making enquiries. We will also host the details of the documents in the website,” Mr Srinivasulu said.