Registration of a sale deed which was done 20 years ago

You cannot register the 20 years old agreement of sale. Moreover the buyer i.e your Grand father  is also not available.

Check Whether the owner who sold the property is available.

On whose name the property tax and other bills are.

If they are on your Grand father's name for more than 12 years the law of Adverse possession may come to your rescue

Request the legal representatives of deceased titleholder- cum- vendor of the property who had agreed to sell it to your grandfather.

What you have been doing since 1990 and what is the problem at this stage?

How do you correlate your case with your neighbour who is stated to get sale deed of his portion registered a year before death of the vendor, which is a separate and independent transaction ?

The property tax of the said house number is mutated on the other person who took the other half portion of house. But still we are getting electricity bills on the name of previous owner, water connection was not taken.

The previous owner died in 2019.

Contact a local advocate and explore the possibility of getting a registered gift deed within the family, if there is the support of some document with the seller.

Yes, the registration of the sale deed is possible only through the legal heirs of the deceased owner. Have you approached them?

Anyhow, title to the property is secured through long and continuous active possession. Entries in the revenue records or other aspects are not deciding factors in deciding ownership.

There was delay of 20 years as my grandfather assumed that the agreement of sale deed is enough. He did not have knowledge of registering it with the registrar. Now after I being educated and joined the government service came to know importance of registration and started pursuing the issue.

We know the legal heirs of the seller, should I write a new sale deed ? If so what is the procedure to be followed. I can call the legal heirs and ask them to sign at the time of registration. Since it is binding for the seller and their legal heirs to register the property as pert terms and conditions of agreement of sale

Ask the legal heirs of the seller to come to the sub registrar office and execute the sale deed. sometimes the sub Registrar may insist for Family member certificate or legal Heir certificate for the execution of the sale deed.

You may write the old facts in the sale deed but you have to pay the stamp duty on the present market value of the property.
 

Sir, willold sale deed is valid for registration now with the signatures of the legal heirs of the seller. Also since seller was a government employee a family member certificate will be given by the M.R.O concerned. I will ask the legal heirs to apply one or take death certificate along with a certified copy of service register of the employee.

A sale deed has to be presented within stipulated time usually 4 months from the date of execution (signature). After four months document may be presented within another four months with penalty subject to maximum of ten times the registration fees, if the District Registrar grants permission.

In your case its time Barred. 

Sir Balu Manikantan subramanyam Sir I have not approached the legal heirs of the seller, as I do not know the Process to Complete my Sale Deed into a Complete Registration Transaction.

Should I write a Fresh Sale deed by stating the Vendors name with the Legal Heirs of the Deceased Seller and the Vendee with my Grandmother name who is legal heir of my grandfather, I will include the old facts of the previous sale deed which was signed by the Deceased Seller.

 If the Family member certificate or legal Heir certificate is mandatory then I will ask the legal heirs to apply for it and then shall go for the execution of the sale deed. I am ready to pay the Stamp duty and Penalty if any as per the Present Market Value.