Property assesment issue- nagar palika , uttar pradesh

My grandfather's ancestral property was transferred to my father, who paid house and water tax regularly. We have official receipts issued by Nagar Palika, Deen Dayal Nagar, U.P. My father passed away in 2015, and in 2016, the property was transferred to my mother’s name with the consent of all legal heirs those are children.

Now, all siblings (brothers and sisters) want to add our names along with our mother. We have a legal heir certificate from the Tehsildar. However, Nagar Palika officials refused, saying the property is already in our mother’s name and cannot be changed while she is alive. We clarified that our mother, a 75-year-old housewife, did not purchase this property from her own earnings—it was ancestral, passed through our father.So, our names should be added with mother.

Then he said they will check assesment record whether property was on my father's name earlier. we wrote application to issue property assesment record. he issued by mistake on mother's name. We reminded then he said come later as he has to check 1987 property assesment record which will take time to check manual very old record. But , it is surprising that we have father's receipt of house tax as proof of that property was on his name which is sufficient to consider our name to be added alongwith father's death certificate, tehsildar letter, affidavit and photos, aadhar etc. Then, why did he looking for property assesment record. why did they not do several assesment between 1987 to 2015. Why only 1987 before 2015? How to deal with this situation to get our name easily transferred to nagar palika.
Kindly advise. Thanks

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Dr. J C Vashista (Advocate ) 21 May 2025

Payment of property tax do not have any effect on transfer of title in the name of legal representatives of deceased.

Show relevant documents to a local prudent lawyer for better appreciation of facts/ documents, which are vague and confusing in your post, professional advise and necessary proceeding.

IQBAL (PRIVATE JOB) 21 May 2025

Thanks for advise.
We have tehsildar letter in which he mentioned us legal heirs.
now, based on it we approched Nagar Palika to add our names which is still not done.
I want to know the rules written of Nagar Palika to convince that our names should be added.

T. Kalaiselvan, Advocate (Advocate) 21 May 2025

The letter from Tehsildar or the legal heirship certificate or the tax paid receipts are not title documents.

In fact the reevenue records now lying on your mother's name against the property, that was inherited by him from his father is also not a title document to your mother.

The mistake you p[eople did then was that you all executed no objection to transfer the revenue records to your mother's name, hence that becomes final.

However your rights in the property towards your rightful share in the property are not exitiguished, you can file a suit for partition to divide the property into so many equal shares after which you can get your individual share of property transferred to your names in the revenue records too.

Instead of figting with reluctant revenue department staff you can adopt legal steps as suggested so that your problems can be soleved easily.

kavksatyanarayana (subregistrar/supdt.(retired)) 21 May 2025

Yes. With your consent, the Nagar Palika entered your mother's name in the records. So, file a partition suit to divide the property between you, your siblings and your mother.