Kagaznama

Title Search Report Request

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Price
Free
Stamp duty
No stamp duty — engaging a professional to search and report creates no right in property (outside s.2(14), Stamp Act 1899).
Registration
Not registrable — an instruction creates no interest in property; outside s.17, Registration Act, 1908.
Witnesses
Not required; identity and the authority's own verification process matter more.

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Also called

  • property title search request
  • title due diligence request
  • chain-of-title search instruction

When you need it

A structured title-search instruction, not just documents the seller hands over: period, identifiers, name variants, registration records, revenue/estate entries, mutations, charges, gaps. Flags broken chain links, missing originals, unverified powers of attorney, unreleased mortgages, and adverse proceedings.

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Punjab's portal gives real-time viewing, but charge searches are separate. A search mandate, not marketable-title certification.

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What follows is written for Punjab and Chandigarh. It states the position there rather than describing how it varies, so the amounts below are the ones that apply — worth confirming at the sub-registrar’s office, because rates change. If the property is anywhere else in India, none of this is yours.

Stamp duty

No stamp duty — engaging a professional to search and report creates no right in property (outside s.2(14), Stamp Act 1899). Plain paper. Only stamp that can arise: a one-rupee revenue stamp on a receipt over Rs 5,000 (s.30/Article 53, Schedule I).

Registration

Not registrable — an instruction creates no interest in property; outside s.17, Registration Act, 1908.

Notarisation

Not required, unless the authority asks for an affidavit.

Witnesses

Not required; identity and the authority's own verification process matter more.

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TITLE SEARCH REPORT REQUEST

Request date: 1 April 2026

Applicant: Aarav Sharma, Sector 21, Panchkula.

Property: Plot 118, Sector 35-A, Chandigarh (Plot/land). Official identifiers: Plot 118, Sector 35-A; prior deed no. 2345..

PURPOSE AND PERIOD

Purpose: Proposed purchase due diligence. Search period: 30 years.

Known owner names/variants: Harpreet Singh; H. Singh..

RECORDS TO BE EXAMINED

Search scope: Registration records and deed chain. Existing title documents supplied: Sale deed 2018, mutation 2020, allotment letter..

REQUIRED OUTPUT

Report format: Chronological title chain with gaps and red flags. Specific concerns: Check whether 2022 mortgage was released.

Please identify the apparent title chain, record each source checked, state any gap or inconsistency, and separate verified facts from matters requiring further evidence.

LEGAL BASIS

In Punjab a title search runs the fard for every quinquennium in the period, then the mutation register behind each change, the order of the Circle Revenue Officer behind each mutation and the roznamcha rapat behind that, then the shajra and any tatima; on top of the revenue record it runs an index search and certified copies at the office of the Sub-Registrar, a Non-Encumbrance Certificate through rcms.punjab.gov.in and a property-under-litigation search on the same portal. An entry in the record of rights is presumed true only until the contrary is proved (section 44 of the Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1887), and section 45 sends the aggrieved owner to a declaratory suit, so a fard proves an entry, not ownership. For a sector property in Chandigarh there is no jamabandi, no fard and no mutation by the Tehsildar: nearly all urban land was sold or leased by Government under the Capital of Punjab (Development and Regulation) Act, 1952, the Estate Officer's allotment file is the title record, and the search runs on estateoffice.chd.gov.in through Know Your Property, Know Your Dues and the User Account Statement.

PERSONAL DATA NOTICE

This notice is given under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.

Personal data is collected only to commission and retain a structured property title search and due-diligence record, communicate about that purpose, verify property or title information, and retain an evidentiary record.

The record will be held by Kagaznama and may be shared only with the applicant, owner, proposed buyer, lender, advocate, registering authority, revenue/estate authority, bank, Central Registry/CERSAI-related search service, or other person directly involved in the stated title or encumbrance check.

If the request does not proceed, personal data will be retained for 90 days and then erased. If it proceeds, the record will be retained for the matter plus 12 months, except where a statutory record-retention rule requires a longer named period.

Questions about this document

Does the Title Search Report Request need stamp paper or stamp duty in Punjab and Chandigarh?

No stamp duty — engaging a professional to search and report creates no right in property (outside s.2(14), Stamp Act 1899).

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Does the Title Search Report Request need registration in Punjab and Chandigarh?

Not registrable — an instruction creates no interest in property; outside s.17, Registration Act, 1908.

See the full position on stamp duty, registration and witnesses
What does the Title Search Report Request cost on Kagaznama?

Free.

Documents are free. Kits are free during our launch.

Does the Title Search Report Request need witnesses?

Not required; identity and the authority's own verification process matter more.

See the full position on stamp duty, registration and witnesses

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