Hyderabad Land registration sans survey numbers illegal

May 10, 2012 - PRLog -- Are you planning to buy a flat in the city? If so, ensure your builder registers the flat by incorporating survey number of the land in the sale deed and not just by mere house number.

Many builders, who have constructed apartment complexes on government land or assigned land, have been duping gullible citizens by registering properties without mentioning survey numbers while registering properties in the city. Builders and developers have been resorting to this method since government land, assigned land and Urban Land Ceiling (ULC) surplus land details with survey numbers have been incorporated in the prohibitory registers with sub-registrars of the registration and stamps department. Registration department officials are not supposed to register or transfer title in the survey numbers mentioned in the prohibitory registers.

The Rangareddy district administration has recently asked tahsildars to update government land details in the prohibitory registers under section of 22 (A) of the Registration Act and also inform sub-registrars not to register properties based on house numbers issued by civic bodies.

For example, survey Nos 96,101, 85 and 87 of Nagole and 36 of Bandlaguda village, according to revenue authorities, are government land and have been incorporated in the prohibitory registers of the sub-registrar office. However, many builders, who have constructed apartment complexes, have been cheating gullible people by registering flats based on house numbers.

"Registrations with house numbers are allowed only in the core area of Hyderabad district where Town Survey Land Record (TSLR), a comprehensive survey giving specific number to each property in the city, was done three decades ago. However, registration department officials have been registering properties on house numbers without insisting on survey numbers in some areas. This practice was brought to our notice by some people," Uppal tahasildar V Lachi Reddy told TOI.

Sources said the house number registrations come in handy for builders where an apartment complex is constructed by demolishing existing independent houses, which might have been constructed a few years ago and house numbers were allotted by the erstwhile surrounding municipalities. When contacted, RR district joint collector M Jagannadham said registrations done illegally would have no legal validity and the inspector-general of police (IG), Registration and Stamps, would initiate action in such cases, including cancellation of registrations. Similarly, action would be taken against encroachments on government land by bulldozing illegal structures

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