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RERA, the registry, diversion, encumbrance, mutation and the deed — what each paper proves and what it does not.

Four members of a family sit around a wooden kitchen table with a folder and loose papers between them, nobody writing yet. Papers & law8 min read नाम किसके?

Whose name goes on the sale deed

Who paid and whose name is on the deed are two different questions. What the choice changes, and why to settle it at home, weeks early, not at the desk.

8 Sep 2025 An elderly man's hands pass a bundle of documents tied with string and a ring of keys across a wooden table to a young woman's hands. Papers & law8 min read एक दिन — और ज़िंदगी भर का काग़ज़।

Registry day: what happens, and mutation afterwards

Stamp duty, the four-month clock, Aadhaar at the counter, e-registration from home, and why a registered deed still leaves mutation to be done.

8 Sep 2025 Two men shake hands across a wooden table with a stack of blank papers and a pen lying between them. Papers & law7 min read टोकन देने से पहले

The token: the agreement that comes before the sale deed

The token is the first money you pay and the moment you have least on paper. Six things to put in the agreement to sell before it moves.

8 Sep 2025 A thick stack of old, worn papers tied with jute twine lies on a dark wooden table Papers & law7 min read काग़ज़ पूरे हैं?

The five documents that decide whether land is safe

The land is usually fine; the paper decides. The five documents that separate a plot you can build on from one you can only argue about, and how to read each.

8 Sep 2025 A man in a blue shirt walks along the footpath of an established colony at dusk, street lamps lit above him and a small park behind Papers & law9 min read ज़मीन देख ली — बनाने वाले को देखा?

How to verify a developer in Indore

A clean plot from a developer who does not finish is still a problem. An afternoon in a colony they completed, five things to look at, what they must prove.

8 Sep 2025 A bare concrete frame of a five-storey building, half clad in brick and wrapped in bamboo scaffolding, stands over a wet street of auto-rickshaws under a grey sky. Papers & law7 min read रजिस्टर्ड है — पर किसका?

What RERA does, and what it does not

Who must register with MP RERA, what an agent's number means, and the four checks a registration does not replace: title, ownership, coverage and sanction.

8 Sep 2025 An elderly pair of hands turning the ruled pages of a worn cloth-bound register on a wooden table by a window. Papers & law8 min read काग़ज़ों के शब्द

Seven words on your papers: khasra, khatauni, diversion, FAR, mutation and more

Khasra, khatauni, diversion, layout sanction, guideline rate, FAR and setback, mutation: what each word on your plot's papers means, and why it matters.

8 Sep 2025 A yellow measuring tape hooked to the foot of a rough concrete boundary wall and run out along the ground of an empty plot. Papers & law8 min read सरहद का झगड़ा।

How boundary disputes start, and the cheap half of avoiding them

Boundary disputes begin as a few feet nobody measured. The six ways a line goes wrong, and the five cheap things to do before you build.

8 Sep 2025 Seen from above, a standing wheat crop on one side of an earth bund and freshly walled brick plots on the other. Papers & law9 min read खेत से प्लॉट तक

Farmland to plots: what diversion changes, and what it does not

Diversion only changes what a parcel is assessed for on the revenue record. The two permissions that must follow, and which paper to ask for by date.

8 Sep 2025 A padlocked iron gate between concrete pillars opens onto an empty walled plot, with a neem tree and half-built houses beyond at sunset Papers & law9 min read इस ज़मीन पर किसी का हक़ तो नहीं?

The encumbrance question: is a loan or a court order already on the land?

A plot can carry a mortgage, a court attachment or a pending suit you cannot see from the gate. What an encumbrance certificate shows, and what it misses.

8 Sep 2025 An open cardboard box of old papers tied with string, on a wooden table in a sunlit living room Papers & law10 min read क़ब्ज़े के बाद

After you own it: property tax and municipal records

Who taxes your plot, why the seller stays liable until the record is changed, and what a tax receipt does and does not prove about ownership.

8 Sep 2025

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