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Following a Gujarat High Court ruling, cancellation of a registered banakhat requires both parties to attend, with a registration fee payable on the cancellation. Vadodara Sub-Registrar offices apply this. It means a deal that may not complete needs its exit route thought through at the outset, because walking away later is a two-signature exercise.
When cancellation is the right instrument
Where both parties agree that a registered document should no longer stand — an agreement to sell that will not proceed, a transaction abandoned by consent — a deed of cancellation records that and is registered against the original. The record then shows the position accurately.
When it is not
A deed of cancellation is a consensual instrument. It cannot be used unilaterally to undo a completed conveyance, and a purported cancellation of a sale deed by the seller alone does not divest the buyer. Where a document is said to be vitiated by fraud, coercion or misrepresentation, the remedy is a suit to have it set aside — not a cancellation deed.
If a registered banakhat is holding up your property and the counterparty has disappeared or refuses to attend, the position depends on what the agreement provides about default, forfeiture and time. Bring the document and the correspondence; there is usually a route, but it is rarely a cancellation deed.
We do not publish duty figures on this website. The Gujarat Stamp Act, 1958 was amended in 2025 and several articles were restructured; a rate printed on a web page goes stale and costs somebody money. As a Government authorised e-Stamping centre we confirm the duty currently prescribed for your specific document and issue the e-stamp against it, at face value. The notarial fee is separate and capped by law — ₹35 to attest execution, ₹35 to administer an oath or take an affidavit, under Rule 10(1) of the Notaries Rules, 1956. The full fee table →
Drafted here, in Gujarati or English
Drafted by an advocate of 35+ years rather than filled into a downloaded template, e-stamped at a Government authorised centre, and notarised in the same visit. If the parties read Gujarati, the document is drafted in Gujarati — not translated out of an English form, because legal Gujarati has its own settled vocabulary and a literal translation frequently means something looser.
What to bring
- The original registered document and its Index-2
- Photo ID for both parties
- Correspondence about the abandonment or default
- Details of any earnest money paid and its treatment