Registration Act, 1908, Section 68 -- The power conferred under Section 68 of the Act on the Registrar to exercise superintendence and control over the Sub Registrar is administrative ...........
Registration Act, 1908, Section 68 -- Section does not confer on the Registrar the power of cancelling registration of a document the execution of which is not denied and which has been registered by the Sub Registrar...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 340, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 466 -- Tenant tampering with record of Judicial Proceedings - Prima facie, tenant committed the offence - Registrar asked to file a complaint and set criminal law in motion against the tenant...........
Transfer of Property Act, 1882, Section 53 -- Lease for 99 years for a paltry sum executed 2 days before sale deed executed - Vendees closely related to lessee - Prospective vendees knew that title under cloud - No attempt at all made to prove endorsement made in registered documents that any lease amount or sale amount was actually paid before Sub Registrar - Section 53..........
Registration Act, 1908, Section 57, 61 -- Entries in books of Sub Registrar are only copies of original documents presented by parties for registration and are not original documents which are returned to parties - Certified copy of entry is only secondary evidence which is admissible in evidence only if original is proved to have been lost or destroyed...........
Registration Act, 1908, Section 21, 23, 28, 32, 35 -- Ownership in question - Act nowhere provides that the Sub Registrar/Registrar can refuse to register the lease deed/sale deed pertaining to a property the ownership of which is in question - It is not within the domain of the Registrar/Sub Registrar to ask the executant of the deed to establish his or her ownership in..........
Registration Act, 1908, Section 21, 23, 28, 32, 35 -- Registering Officer cannot refuse registration of document conveying property ownership of which is in dispute - All reasons specifically enumerated under Sections 21, 23, 28, 32 and 35 for which a Sub Registrar or Registrar may refuse to register sale deed and other documents - Act nowhere provides that Sub..........
Registration Act, 1908, Section 34 -- Empowers Registering Officer to make enquiry before registration of a document - Enquiry whether or not such document executed by persons by whom it purports to have been executed and to satisfy him-self as to identity of persons appearing before him - If any of the requirements of Section 34 not satisfied - Sub Registrar has power to..........
Will -- Registered - Natural heirs disinherited without any reason - Belated mention of the execution of Will in additional written statement - Doubt as to identification of executant before Sub Registrar - Scribe not deposing that he knew the executant of Will - Propounder of Will not dispelling these suspicious circumstances - Will not accepted as validly executed by..........
Will -- Validity of - Conscience of Court must be satisfied that the Will in question not only executed and attested in the manner required under Indian Succession Act, but it should also be found that said Will was the product of free volition of executant who had voluntarily executed the same after knowing and understanding the contents of the Will - Whenever there is..........
