Why to hire a property lawyer in India before buying a property? Part 5
After completion of the registration of the conveyance deed and receipt of the original deed from the registration office, the buyer becomes the owner of the purchased property. Next logical and final step required in the sequence of purchase, as discussed in details in the earlier parts, is incorporation of the new owner’s (buyer’s) name in the “Records of right”. These records are maintained by the Land revenue office, local Municipal office / Panchayat office. The buyer must get his / her name inserted in these records as owner of the property. This process is called Mutation. Though these records of right are not “document to title” but are immensely helpful in future litigations for determination of ownership rights of a property.
Initially an application, in the prescribed format along with the appropriate fee, is to be submitted with the office of the local civic body (corporation / municipality/ panchayat) against a valid acknowledgement. All the relevant details of the purchased property needs to be given in this application, hence utmost care is required while furnishing these details. The dealing office of the civic body processes the application and the property is valued for taxation purposes and annual tax payable against the property is fixed by the dealing office. In the process new identification numbers for holding, plot, khata, dag etc is allotted to the property. A date is fixed by the concerned authorities for hearing and the new owner is duly intimated so that s/he may make presentation to the designated person against the tax amount fixed by the dealing office. After due disposal of the dispute (if any) the dealing office issues “Mutation Certificate” to the new owner and subsequently based on the mutation process records of land revenue office is amended with the name of the new owner being shown as owner of the property.
For successful completion of the entire aforesaid process, starting from filing of application for mutation and ending with issuance of mutation certificate and amendment of land revenue records, the buyer needs assistance from a competent legal professional to pre-empt bigger botheration in the long run, as goes the saying “prevention is better than cure”
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