Legal questions on Property Law

Threats from one owner in apartment

We are trying to form an association for our newly built apartment. As nobody wanted to become part of it, we somehow managed to get few volunteers who were interested in making the association. As there was no competition for any of the post, each post was assigned to a member of committee and those who were left with no post were supposed to work as committee members only. No election were he...

Refund of Token money.When I, the buyer wants to cancel and no sale deed is signed and executed.

Sir/ Ma'am, I booked 2 BHK flat with 1lac Rupees and had to give 10% of the total value of the flat for agreement of sale. However, due to my personal reasons and builder's highly irresponsible behavior, I thought to cancel the deal. I just had filled their application form for the 2-BHK flat which I intended to buy. Even after many follow-ups, they did not give any receipts what so ever, j...

Booking amount refund

I have booked a 2-bhk flat in Hyderabad. However, as a booking amount the builder collected 2.5lakhs from me and before booking he need my details for application purpose and never mentioned me that it is an agreement. And more over he didn't handed me a copy of the agreement which he said as an application while collecting my signatures. My family verified that the carpet area is very less ...

Property issue

Hi, My grandmother transfered the house to by dad he is the elder son in the family, but there is no record any where he only had the ration card stating the property is in his name. but in course of time my uncle who is younger to my dad had some financial issue and he wanted to take loan for his sons education though he didnt have any owned property so he requested my father to tarnsfer the h...

Mutation done of unpartitioned land of the share sold to me

There was an unpartitioned land of 1 co sharers out of which 1 person sold be a portion of it. Later land was acquired & remained acquired for 12 yrs. Meanwhile this person died & basis his will I became the owner of the land. Also his wife got the same land mutated in favour of herself & her kids(legal heirs of seller) while completely ignoring this transaction to which she was active particip...

How much is the cost of probate?

Hi, My grandfather died after leaving a will in the name of my father. My father has 2 other siblings (sisters) who at this point, do not have any objection to the wil and willing to sign on any paper. My grandfather's movable and immvoave properties are in Morena (MP) and in Jaipur. Since my grandfather has left all his assets to my father so based on the will, my father has gotten the ...

Buying of flat in colony land

Legal advice and legal services Regarding ownership of Flat build on Refugee Relief /Colony Land Dear Sir, Warm Greetings of the Day, I am intended to purchase one 2 BHK Flat at South Kolkata Arabinda nagar Bijoygarh area Location. Sir, said flat has been developed by the builder on a land called as Refugee Relief Land / Colony Land (i.e. these lands are gifted by WB Govt. to migrant from B...

Can a sub tenant become tenant

We are the subtenant in the shop in mumbai as our ex tenant has inducted my grandfather in the year 1967 with the concent of ex landlord orally and the tenant used to give rent receipt in my grandfather and father name the ex tenant died in year 1984 and due to lack of knowledge we didn't do anything now in year 1999 the old landlord sold the property to new landlord now new landlord is removin...

Land Regularization

I bought a gram panchayat approved plot of 167 sq. yards during 2013 in the erstwhile state of Andhra Pradesh and got it registered in SRO in the same year. Since the village where the plot is located is in the vicinity of Hyderabad, the village it seems is covered under Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA). As per HMDA, gram panchayat approved layouts falling in their limits are...

Property Title confirmation

I am planning to buy a plot in Indirapuram Ghaziabad. GDA allotted plot. Initially this plot was purchased by 3 partners. one of the partners died and other 2 partners created "waris nama" from deputy magistrate for his wife and 2 sons. The mutation of this property was done in the revenue records in the name of 2 partners and wife along 2 sons of deceased partner. Later one partner purchased h...

Property inherited by my father from my grand father

Hi Sir, My grandfather's property was divided among his 9 children after his death and my father has got his piece of land as part of partition. The entire property was bought by my grandfather during his time and not inherited from his ancestors. The land was partitioned and the document/stamp paper has all details about which survey number belongs to which son and this is not registered...

Brokerage Charges

I rented an apartment last year. I consider the person showing me apartments as the broker. Once my wife and I decided on one, our broker introduced us to a firm that said they handle the properties of the apartment owner, since he resides in Dubai. We signed the rental agreements between the landlord and us (the tenants). We paid our broker one month's rent as brokerage charges. Now that we ne...

How to distribute stocks and mutual funds as per the will?

As per the will, the stocks and any other investments (like Mutual Funds, etc) needs to be divided between 4 beneficiaries (equally, i.e : 25% each). In the event of execution of the will, how will the distribution of this asset be done as per law? Scenario 1 Will all the stocks and bonds and other investments held in the name of the deceased will be liquidated and the proceeds from that be...

To get money back from builder due to non-possession of flat

Hello Sir, I had invested in property in April 2011 in Badlapur near to Railway station As per the registered agreement, the possession was to be given by April 2012. I had taken home loan of 21 lakhs from Bank. I received regular demand draft to pay money to builder as and when the slab work was progressing. But due to some issue of NOC clearance from the Railway authorities - the possession ...

Tenancy issue in Uttar Pradesh

I have a property (this property is on laon and original papers are with bank) in UP which was given on rent to a tenant. Initial unregistered rent agreement for 11 months has happened between the Landlord and the tenant in the year 2003. There after the tenant was out of the country for work and his family was occupying the premises and hence the rent agreement cannot be extended. The tenant w...

Money transferred of a very ill person

My father was died on 20th September 2016 at Uluberia,Howrah.I am only child of my late parent (my mother was died a few years before). In the last few month's my father had been suffering from acute kidney problems ,actually had to dialysis thrice in a week. He was a patient of blood sugar from his middle thirties or early forties.  My late father are 9 brother and sisters . In the last few...

Issues with Private Builder

Hi, We have bought a house from a private builder (builders who build few floors and sold them off) in 2011. The builder built 3 floors in approx 2000 sq ft. and a ground floor as a parking. He kept the entire 1st floor with 4 BHK and a huge drawing room, storage etc for himself, while 2nd and 3rd floors were divided into two 2 BHK flats of 1000 sqft at each floor. So each floor is having 2 ...

Adding mothers name to property card to my father's property

We sold our father's ancestral property located in Kolhapur, Maharashtra. My father passed away in July 2017. The builder gave us token amount in Feb 2017 at the time of sale deed and the final amount was due in Sept 2017, which he dishonoured the cheque. I live in Canada and when I visited india in August 201... I read the sale deed and found out that 10sq mt.. has shown less in the deed. So I...

Eviction of tenant and action regarding threat

We want to evict our tenant as he is causing a lot of personal problems like entering our premise without our permission especially when we take our baths and the women are not clothed (not just a coincidence. Has happened more than 10 times) and he also is a sly person. We also want to pursue with some renovation work in the flat. He is an old man and has been staying there since 2010. His agr...

Issue of my grandfather property

Hello sir, My mother was adopted by her father's uncle, not legally. Her parents are also alive. Her education, and marriage everything was taken care by her adopted parents, they don't have any children. My grandfather has joint land property with his brothers, they shared it that"each one gets 17 cents of land". My grand father built a house in this land. After she got married my grandfather...