Singh1111 (s) 07 July 2012

Blank paper sign

Hi all

What may be consiquence of signing in blank paper?

If someone sign incorrect in blank paper, then what?

Waiting eagerly your response

Regards Singh

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Adv Rohit Dalmia 9324538481 (Lawyer) 08 July 2012

1st let me know what is the need of signing blank paper? by signing blank paper the signatory is putting itself into big risk as the blank signed paper could be used in any manner which may harm the interest and image of the signatory.

Ajit Singh Cheema (practising Advocate) 08 July 2012

The consequences of signing a blank paper will depend upon the document prepared on the basis of the signed paper. The signature of the person remains the same ,whether signed correctly or incorrectly ,which is the subject matter of the hand writing expert.

Nitish Banka (lawyer) 03 June 2018

Signatures on blank documents could land you in Jail

Posted by: Nitish Banka Categories: Civil Law Criminal Law

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Signatures on blank documents?

Many a times in property related transactions property dealer makes you sign on certain blank papers to do deal with prospective buyers of the property they do sweet talks and get your signatures on blank documents to be used at later stages of transaction.

If your property dealer is honest then those documents will be used to honor the deal else will lead to litigation and eventually will land you up in jail also.

Modus operandi-How the documents can be misused

If you are putting signatures on multiple documents then these documents can be used as cash receipt and can be used as agreement to sell of a property which you are intending to sell. Now if one agreement to sell and receipts are there with one person then a civil case of specific performance that is to sell the property at very low rate to intended purchaser or a suit of recovery is maintainable based on receipts in civil court.

Now if two agreement to sell and two receipts are there with two different persons with respect to same property the a criminal case of fraud is made out in such cases.