Officials, Citizens Would Colluded to Violate: SC Order

Duty and complying with other formalities in compliance of the orders of the Hon’ble Supreme  Court. What if the buyer is not able to bring the previous owner to the registrar office? The onus  lies on the buyer. But I have spoken to many sub-registrars who are of the view that technically it  is impossible to convert an IGPA into a sale deed even if the buyer brings the previous owner and  pays the remaining stamp duty? As I said, each individual case will be different and solution will  have to be found in compliance with the orders of the Hon’ble Supreme Court. But don’t you  think by registering GPAS, public officers like sub- registrars have violated the SC order? Yes, sub-registrars/ property-record mutating authorities as also the parties have made themselves liable and hence it is imperative for them not to do so in future. Do you think the ban on GPA sale will put an end to all property transactions through unfair means? Of course. The ‘GPA sale’ is the brainchild of land mafias and some property dealers. These people have no respect for the law and have been manipulating the legal provisions for their own benefit for years. We all know that DDA takes months and years to convert a leasehold property into freehold. Now since you have stopped executing documents of agreement to sale of leasehold property, won’t selling of such properties become an extremely cumbersome process in any DDA owned colony or society? Now it’s high time that these authorities should become citizen-friendly. They should process the documents in a time-bound manner so that a house owner will not have to wait for years to sell his property. If a buyer is facing any hardship in getting a sale deed executed, is there any way he can address his grievance to you? Yes, Any citizen facing any problem regarding execution of sale deed can contact me at these three email ids - (1) divcom@nic.in, (2) dceast@nic.in (3) hqsdm2@nic.in )

Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 12-05-2012