High Court Quashes the Ban of Registration of Revenue Properties

♠ Posted by Unknown in Bangalore Real Estate News at 4:14 PM

Ban on registration of unapproved layouts in Bangalore

The state government earlier put a ban on the registration of the unapproved layouts and the land stretches on the outskirts of Bangalore and on the green belt. The High Court quashed the government orders of 2009 which barred the registration of such properties. However for the B-Khata and e-Khata properties the registration Partial approval of Property on regularization till December 2013. But now with the order of the HC which quashed the government ban on such prohibition of registration by the owners of the properties, they heaved a sigh of relief after the High Court quashed the orders of 2009 last week.  

The High Court quashed the 2009 orders stating that the office of the Sub-registrars do not have any power to seek any of the documents which are not stipulated under the Stamps and Registration Act. But speaking in favour of the state government sources from the revenue department said that this ruling was in vogue to prevent the unauthorized increment of the revenue land stretches in the state. This is especially true in the green belt areas of the state and such pockets adjoining urban areas and cities.

This ruling of the High Court has been a great panacea to the real estate developers also looking for land and its due conversion. The trend watchers opine that there are many private layouts that have come up in the green zones and belts under the jurisdiction of BDA areas outside the BBMP jurisdiction. These layouts haven’t got the converted status of Khata and neither are the layouts being approved said the sources from the revenue department. The trend watchers say that this problem is more severe in the areas that are newly added which are the 110 villages and other outskirts of the city.

The revenue officials opined that after this order of the High Court, it would be difficult to control the spree of the mushrooming of the unauthorized stretches of revenue land. The revenue officials further commented that although the prohibition of registration is being lifted but this is not a guarantee of the title of the property. This implies that the buyers and the prospective customers will be more vulnerable for being cheated by the unscrupulous builders and developers with illegal buildings and encroached lands in Bangalore. The probability of violation of the bylaws while constructing buildings will surely increase feels many of the revenue department which may affect the buyers at a later stage.