- Bribe Hotline
- 14 years ago
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Can\'t a property\'s registration be carried out without resorting to bribing?
Yes, very much so. Since there are fixed area wise guidance values. Regardless of the value on your sale deed, you had to pay the stamp duty as per the guidance value, (or the sale deed value, whichever is higher). This means that the sub registrarâ??s office has no discretion now. They must register your deed.
The maximum the sub registrar can do if you do not pay a bribe is to make you wait. thats all! And even there they cannot do much. Please go to the registration departments website, at
http://www.karigr.org/citizen/default.htm
Here you can download the citizens charter of the registration department. Do you in know in how much time the sub registrar has committed to complete your transaction? 2 hours 20 minutes! 20 minutes to verify the market value of property, 1 hour for Preliminary scrutiny of documents, enclosures and issue of Form No.1A. and one hour for admission of documents, recording signatures etc. Please print out the citizens charter and carry it with you. Let us see how many officials will disregard their own departments citizens charter!
At the end of the day, the registrars office is bluffing you. They have no discretion to refuse to undertake a registration, if your papers are in order. According to their own citizens charter, they have committed to finish your transaction within a short time. If they demand a bribe from you, it is because they believe they can fool you, for some more time at least.