What Should You Do If Your Property Paperwork Are Misplaced?
Who owns a property is established entirely by who is listed as the owner on the title—merely possessing the property does not indicate you are the owner. So, if you happen to lose or misplace your property paperwork or original selling deed, you need take action right once. The initial step is to recover the missing papers, followed by obtaining a duplicate copy of the lost property paperwork.
What is the initial step in the recovery of lost property documents?
File a FIR
The initial step toward recovering lost property papers would be to go to your local police station and file a first information report (FIR). Police will search for the documents after filing a FIR. If they fail to do so within a reasonable time frame, they will issue a non-traceable certificate saying that their search for the missing papers was fruitless.
Publicize in newspapers
As previously said, the owner must first look for the property paperwork. To accomplish this, he would need to place an ad in at least two newspapers announcing the loss of the property paperwork and requesting that anyone finds it return the documents to his location. We must emphasise that doing so is mandatory, not discretionary. In the next portions of this post, we will get to the point.
Create a programme.
Write down the full sequence of events on a blank sheet of paper, noting that the lost or misplaced document could not be recovered within an acceptable time frame. Include all property data, as well as copies of the non-traceable certificate and newspaper advertisement clips. Write an undertaking that the facts included in the application are truthful to the best of your knowledge while drafting this matter.
Please send it to the sub-registrar.
Send the application to the sub-registrar office where the property was first registered. Your application will be accepted once the papers have been validated. In 15-20 days, you will receive a duplicate copy of the property paperwork.
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