• GPA misused to gift

I had given my husband a registered GPA in 2013 to manage, lease and sell my properties and put the sale proceeds into my account. The GPA has NO authority to GIFT
EXTRACT OF THE GPA
"AND WHEREAS I DO HEREBY CONSTITUTE, NOMINATE, MY SAID LAWFUL ATTORNEY TO DO ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING ACTS DEEDS OR THINGS OR CAUSE TO BE DONE WHICH ARE MENTIONED HERE UNDER:
1. To work, manage, control and supervise all affairs in respect of my properties at Ooty and Bangalore.
2. To make, sign and verify all applications, objections to appropriate authorities for any licence, permission or consent, etc., as required by law in connection with the management and development of my properties at Ooty and Bangalore.
3. To enter into agreement/s of sale in respect of my properties or any portions thereof or enter into any kind of agreements on such terms as my Attorney deems fit and to get the Agreements registered as well to cancel the said registrations.
4. To execute and register on my behalf sale deed/s in respect of my properties at Ooty and Bangalore or any portions thereof in favour of any prospective or any intending purchaser or purchasers identified and authorized by my attorney.
5. To receive sale consideration amount and acknowledge receipt of the sale consideration in respect of my properties at Ooty and Bangalore and after receiving the sale consideration and to execute all such papers as necessary for transfer of the revenue records in the name/s of prospective purchasers in favour of whom the sale deed/s are to be executed.
6. To make, sign and verify all applications, Affidavits before the concerned Sub-Registrar as required by law in connection with the execution of the Sale Deed/s of my properties at Ooty and Bangalore."

My property is an empty PLOT, that has been on my name for 30 years.
In the year 2018 (FEB) he used my GPA and gifted the property to our 3rd daughter (I have 4 children) whilst I was away in LONDON looking after my eldest daughter
After I returned it came to my notice that he was trying the sell the property and I procured copies of the GIFT DEED, along with a GPA my daughter has given my husband to sell and keep the proceeds
I need to take legal recourse to restore the title back in my name.
Please advise my way forward
Asked 4 years ago in Property Law
Religion: Christian

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The gift deed executed in feb 18 is invalid and liable to be set aside. Immediately file a suit seeking cancellation of sale deed as being invalid since the attorney has to power to gift the property and no such power of conferred on the attorney. Make both of them parties to suit. If the property is transferred to third parties it will complicate if issue. Produce all document the GPA and copy of gift deed. Court will cancel the sale deed.  


The gift deed executed in feb 18 is invalid and liable to be set aside. Immediately file a suit seeking cancellation of sale deed as being invalid since the attorney has to power to gift the property and no such power of conferred on the attorney. Make both of them parties to suit. If the property is transferred to third parties it will complicate if issue. Produce all document the GPA and copy of gift deed. The court will cancel the sale deed.  

Ravi Shinde
Advocate, Hyderabad
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42 Consultations

Hello,

  1. As the GPA does not authorize the holder to get a Gift Deed executed, his act is illegal  and therefore the Gift Deed  Needs to be cancelled.  The donor and the donee of the Gift Deed have to be present and be parties to the cancellation as well. Therefore you need to ask your husband and husband to get a Cancellation of the Gift Deed done to get the title back in your name.
  2. In case of them refusing to oblige, you will have to take legal recourse to get a Court Order against the offenders which would also include the registering authority that has overlooked specific authority not passed on to the GPA older.

S J Mathew
Advocate, Mumbai
3598 Answers
175 Consultations

You have to file suit to set aside gift deed executed by husband on basis of POA 

 

2) take the plea that POA did not authorise husband to execute gift deed 

Ajay Sethi
Advocate, Mumbai
97277 Answers
7856 Consultations

1. Revoke the GPA executed by you in favour of your husband.

2.  If your 3rd daughter agrees, revoke the Gift Deed, which was gifted to her by your Agent. 

3.  Send a legal notice to your husband asking for explanation from him as to why did he execute Gift Deed in favour of 3rd daughter and ask him to revoke it.

4.  File a suit in the jurisdictional District Court for declaring the Gift Deed executed by your husband to your 3rd daughter as Null & Void.

Thank you.

Shashidhar S. Sastry
Advocate, Bangalore
5427 Answers
330 Consultations

You first of all issue a legal notice to your husband communicating your decision to cancel the GPA executed in his favor on so and so date with immediate forthwith mentioning that his fraudulent activity by which he had transferred the property to your daughter by a gift deed, which is an unauthorized act. 

You issue a newspaper publication to this effect warning the general public that any sale deed he may execute in favor any prospective purchaser proposing to buy the properties given in the schedule therein would be invalid, illegal and not binding on you. 

You can endorse a copy of the legal notice to the concerned registrar too.

In the meantime you can file a suit for cancelling the registered GPA executed in his favor before the concerned local court. 

Simultaneously you can file a suit for cancelling the registered gift deed executed by your husband in favor of your daughter  and for possession. 

T Kalaiselvan
Advocate, Vellore
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Anik Miu
Advocate, Bangalore
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Hi 

The Gift deed purportedly executed by your Husband in favour of your second daughter is NULL and Void as the same is executed using the GPA Granted by you to your husband. 

a bare reading of Section 122 of Transfer of property will reveal the intent of legislature where in 

- gift is out of love and affection between the Donor and the Donee and as such the Gift by itself is purely personal in nature between the Donor and Donee.

- There can be no delegation of love and affection between the parties and as such GPA being a delegated power cannot be used to execute a Gift Deed.

 

Also in your case, since GPA has been granted in the year 2013, the same cannot be used for execution of gift deed in the year 2018 as in law, a gift deed (assuming the Donor is personally incapacitated or dumb) can be executed only using a registered special power of attorney executed before a Sub-Registrar (who is a Executive Duty Magistrate) 

So, in your case, the GPA holder cannot execute any personal deed of conveyance in favour of any other person and as such the donee gets no rights, title, interest over the gifted property and as such Section 31 (1) of Specific Relief Act, will come in to play and cancellation of gift deed will be granted.  So No worries. 

Hope this information is useful. 

 

Rajgopalan Sripathi
Advocate, Hyderabad
2173 Answers
394 Consultations

Dear Madam,

You must immediately file a suit and restrain them from selling the property. You can cancel transaction as it is without your authorization since you have execution the GPA in the year 2013 that is long back and forgotten about it and now your husband and your daughter misusing the same. You can get back your property.

Kishan Dutt Kalaskar
Advocate, Bangalore
6193 Answers
491 Consultations

- Since, the said GPA was not having any clause for gifted the property without receiving consideration amount , then that Gift deed executed by your husband is void and not legal . 

- Hence, legally you have right to cancel the gift deed , either mutually by entering into a registered Cancellation deed or after approaching the Court . 

- If your husband not ready mutually , then you can file a Declaration suit before the court . 

Mohammed Shahzad
Advocate, Delhi
14651 Answers
224 Consultations

1. File a declaratory suit praying for a declaration that the said Gift deed is illegal, hence it has been registered by the POA holder who was not authorised to register any Gift Deed in connection with the said properties.

 

2. In the said suit, also pray for an order upon the concerned Registrar to cancel the said gift deed.

Krishna Kishore Ganguly
Advocate, Kolkata
27501 Answers
726 Consultations

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