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What a proper check covers
- Chain of title at the Sub-Registrar, typically over thirteen or thirty years — every transaction by which the property reached the present seller, with Index-2 and certified copies where needed.
- The revenue record — 7/12 and 8-A for agricultural land through AnyROR, or the property card and city survey record for urban property.
- Mutation entries — whether each registered transaction was actually carried into the record. A deed with no corresponding mutation is a half-finished transaction and a very common gap.
- Encumbrances — registered charges, mortgages, and whether any have been released.
- NA permission or sanad where the land was agricultural and you intend to build.
- Heirship, where the property came by inheritance — whether every heir is accounted for. A banakhat signed by three of five heirs is a problem waiting to happen.
- Litigation, society dues, property tax arrears and utility arrears.
Buying agricultural land intending to build, without checking the NA position. Buying from one heir where there were four. Relying on a registered deed while the revenue record still names somebody else. And buying on a general power of attorney — which, since Suraj Lamp (2011), conveys no title at all.
When to do it
Before the banakhat, not before the sale deed. By the time the agreement to sell is signed and earnest money has passed, your position is already committed and a defect discovered then is a dispute rather than a decision. Where the diligence is not complete, make the agreement expressly conditional on it, with a clean exit if it fails.
This is advocate's work rather than counter work, and it is charged as such.
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Drafted here, in Gujarati or English
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What to bring
- Whatever title documents the seller has provided
- Survey or city survey number and the property address
- 7/12 and 8-A extract, or the property card, if available
- The seller's identity documents
- Details of how the seller acquired the property