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Compromise Deed in a Property Dispute

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Stamp duty: Punjab: the deed is stamped before or at signing (section 17 of the Indian Stamp Act, 1899) and bears the duty of the article that fits what it actually does, whatever its title. … Chandigarh: the same Act decides which article applies, and the duty is paid at the Union Territory's rate for that article.
Registration: Punjab and Chandigarh: an instrument that creates, declares, assigns, limits or extinguishes a right in immovable property worth ₹100 or more must be registered under section 17(1)(b) of the Registration Act, 1908, and a compromise that divides, gives up or confirms rights in the Property does exactly that.
Witnesses: Punjab and Chandigarh: two adult witnesses who saw the parties sign attest the deed, each with a name and address.

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Also called

razinama
settlement deed for dispute
property dispute compromise agreement

When you need it

A quarrel over land or a building in Punjab or Chandigarh has been talked out. It may be brothers disputing a share in inherited land, co-owners arguing over who holds which part of a plot, neighbours fighting over a boundary wall or a passage, or a claimant who says a sale left out his share.

The talks may have run through relatives, the village panchayat or the parties' advocates; this deed, the razinama, turns what was agreed into terms that bind both sides and their heirs. It names the parties and the property with its revenue or municipal record numbers, states what the quarrel was and any case it is in, and then records who takes which part, what money is paid and when, when possession passes, how the ownership record is corrected, and what follows if someone does not perform. Each side releases the claims the quarrel involved. Because the deed decides rights in immovable property, it is stamped by what it actually does and, where it creates, declares, assigns, limits or extinguishes a right worth ₹100 or more, registered before the Sub-Registrar under section 17(1)(b) of the Registration Act, 1908. Where a suit or other case about the property is pending, the deed is filed there as well, so that the case ends on the same terms. A settlement left oral, or written on plain unstamped paper, gives neither side anything the Sub-Registrar, the revenue office or a court can act on.

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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

Punjab: the deed is stamped before or at signing (section 17 of the Indian Stamp Act, 1899) and bears the duty of the article that fits what it actually does, whatever its title. A deed that passes a portion or share of the Property from one party to the other is a conveyance of that part, charged 5% stamp duty and 1% Social Infrastructure Cess on the consideration or the collector rate, whichever is higher. A deed that divides property the parties already hold together, releases a claim, or only records terms is charged under the article for that kind of instrument instead. Chandigarh: the same Act decides which article applies, and the duty is paid at the Union Territory's rate for that article. In both, a deed not duly stamped cannot be admitted in evidence, or acted on by the Sub-Registrar or any other public officer, until the duty and a penalty are paid (section 35).

Registration

Punjab and Chandigarh: an instrument that creates, declares, assigns, limits or extinguishes a right in immovable property worth ₹100 or more must be registered under section 17(1)(b) of the Registration Act, 1908, and a compromise that divides, gives up or confirms rights in the Property does exactly that. The parties, or their authorised attorneys, present it before the Sub-Registrar of the sub-district where the Property lies within four months of signing (section 23). A refusal to register can be taken to the Registrar within 30 days, by appeal or application under section 72 or 73. Register the deed even where it is also filed in a pending case.

Notarisation

Punjab and Chandigarh: a notary's attestation is not needed and does not take the place of registration. The Sub-Registrar's endorsement is the proof that the parties executed the deed, and it is the registered deed that the ownership record is changed on.

Witnesses

Punjab and Chandigarh: two adult witnesses who saw the parties sign attest the deed, each with a name and address. Choose persons who know both parties and can come to the Sub-Registrar's office on the day the deed is presented.

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COMPROMISE DEED (RAZINAMA)

This compromise deed is made at Khanna, District Ludhiana on 1 April 2026.

It is made between Harjinder Singh, son of Gurdev Singh, aged 58 years, resident of Village Rasulra, Tehsil Khanna, District Ludhiana (the First Party), and Balwinder Singh, son of Gurdev Singh, aged 52 years, resident of House No. 2231, Street No. 4, Guru Nanak Nagar, Khanna, District Ludhiana (the Second Party). Each of these expressions includes that party's heirs, legal representatives, successors and permitted assigns. The parties are real brothers and co-sharers in the land their father left.

1. The Property and how it is held. This deed concerns agricultural land measuring 16 kanals 8 marlas in the revenue estate of Village Rasulra, Tehsil Khanna, District Ludhiana, with the tubewell and the room built on it (the Property), recorded as Khewat No. 112, Khatauni No. 131, Khasra Nos. 45//12 (8-0) and 45//19 (8-8), as per the jamabandi for the year 2021-22, Hadbast No. 211. The land was bought by Gurdev Singh, the father of both parties, under sale deed No. 2211 dated 14 June 1988 registered with the Sub-Registrar, Khanna. After his death on 9 March 2019 the First Party had it entered in his sole name by mutation No. 3318, which the Second Party disputes. The Property lies within the sub-district of the Sub-Registrar, Khanna, and changes to its ownership record are entered by the Tehsildar, Khanna.

2. The dispute. After their father died in 2019 the First Party claimed the whole land under a family arrangement said to have been made in 2012, while the Second Party claimed a half share as a natural heir and objected to the First Party cultivating all of it. The parties also quarrelled over the tubewell and the path to it. In this deed all of that is called the Dispute. The Dispute is the subject of Civil Suit No. 1452 of 2024, Balwinder Singh v. Harjinder Singh, for declaration and permanent injunction, pending in the court of the Civil Judge (Junior Division), Khanna, next fixed for 3 October 2026 (the Pending Case).

3. How the Dispute was settled. The parties have talked the Dispute over with the help of Sarpanch Kulwant Singh and other respected residents of Village Rasulra, and have agreed to end it on the terms of this deed, each of them acting freely and without pressure, fraud or undue influence from anyone. They mean these terms to settle the Dispute finally, and to replace every claim either of them has made in it, in writing, in a case or by word of mouth.

4. What the settlement does. The Property is divided between the parties by metes and bounds: each party becomes sole owner of the portion clause 5 gives it, and gives up to the other every right in the other portion. Nothing in this deed gives either party a right in any property other than the Property unless this deed names that property expressly, and nothing in it is an admission by either party about any other property or any other person.

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Does the Compromise Deed in a Property Dispute need stamp paper or stamp duty in Punjab and Chandigarh?

Punjab: the deed is stamped before or at signing (section 17 of the Indian Stamp Act, 1899) and bears the duty of the article that fits what it actually does, whatever its title. … Chandigarh: the same Act decides which article applies, and the duty is paid at the Union Territory's rate for that article.

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Does the Compromise Deed in a Property Dispute need witnesses?

Punjab and Chandigarh: two adult witnesses who saw the parties sign attest the deed, each with a name and address.

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