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This document has to be registered, or it carries enough risk that a template does more harm than good. We publish what it must contain and what to verify, so you can walk in already knowing what matters — and the drafting itself is done here, against your actual documents.
This document must be registered
Section 17(1) of the Registration Act, 1908 makes registration compulsory for any non-testamentary instrument that creates, declares, assigns, limits or extinguishes a right, title or interest of ₹100 or more in immovable property. In 1908 that was a threshold; today it captures essentially every property transaction. Where a compulsorily registrable document is left unregistered, section 49 bars it from affecting the property or being received as evidence of the transaction.
For years property changed hands on a package of general power of attorney, agreement to sell and will. In Suraj Lamp & Industries (P) Ltd. v. State of Haryana (2011) the Supreme Court held that such transactions do not convey or create title in immovable property. Only a registered deed of conveyance does. The Court did not invalidate genuine transactions carried out through a properly registered power of attorney, nor bar specific performance of a real agreement to sell; it preserved genuine agreements and powers of attorney except to the limited extent of section 53A. But if a property is being offered to you on a GPA rather than on a sale deed, you are not buying the property.
Where to check, in Gujarat
Title verification is done on records, not on assurances. Garvi is the registration portal and is where you obtain Index-2 for the previous transactions. AnyROR carries the 7/12 and 8-A extracts for agricultural land. Rural mutations run through the e-Dhara centres; urban property records sit with the City Survey office. For a flat, the society's records and the share certificate matter as much as the deed.
The senior citizen clause, which almost nobody checks
Under section 23 of the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007, where a senior citizen has transferred property after the commencement of that Act subject to a condition that the transferee provide basic amenities and basic physical needs, and the transferee fails, the transfer is deemed to have been made by fraud or coercion and may be declared void by the Maintenance Tribunal at the transferor's option. Two limits matter to a buyer tracing a long chain: a transfer made before the Act commenced cannot be attacked under section 23 at all, and the transfer is not void by itself — the senior citizen (or a recognised organisation acting for them) has to move.
Sudesh Chhikara v. Ramti Devi (2022) read section 23 strictly and required both conditions. But in Urmila Dixit v. Sunil Sharan Dixit (2025) the Supreme Court held that section 23 is beneficial legislation to be construed liberally and purposively, that form cannot triumph over substance, and that the maintenance condition need not be expressly recited in the deed — a collateral promise plus evidence of neglect was enough. The Tribunal may also order eviction and restoration of possession. For a purchaser downstream of a senior-citizen transfer, that widens the risk rather than narrowing it. If any seller in the chain was a senior citizen transferring to a relative, find out why before you pay.
What to bring when you come in
- Every title document you have been shown, and Index-2 for the seller's own purchase
- 7/12 and 8-A, or City Survey extract
- Latest property tax receipt
- Identity and PAN of all parties
- Any power of attorney being relied on
- The draft the other side has prepared, if there is one
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