Kagaznama

Power of Attorney for Litigation

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Also called

  • Special Power of Attorney for Litigation
  • Litigation POA
  • Power of Attorney to Conduct Court Cases
  • Mukhtarnama
  • Khas Mukhtarnama
  • Mukhtiyarnama
  • Adhikar Patra
  • Power of Attorney for Suits and Legal Proceedings

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Can't personally run a court case — abroad, unwell, busy? Appoint a trusted attorney to instruct advocates, sign/verify pleadings, attend hearings, and, if authorised, settle and receive money. Not a vakalatnama.

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Don't use it if: a company/LLP/trust; selling or mortgaging property (a POA passes no title — Suraj Lamp v. State of Haryana (2012) 1 SCC 656); a criminal accused; presenting to a Sub-Registrar; or with a stake in the outcome.

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Stamp duty

Article 48 (Article 41, Karnataka) — conveys nothing, a small FIXED duty. Buy the e-stamp in the Principal's name. A sale power is a conveyance in Maharashtra — don't add sale powers. Abroad: stamp within three months (s.18); understamped, s.35 bars evidence.

Registration

Not compulsorily registrable — s.17 catches only a property interest created; optional (s.18), notarised is accepted in court. Presenting at a Sub-Registrar needs s.33 authentication — in India, before your district's Registrar; abroad, a Notary, Court or Consul — an India-notarised power is refused. If registered, revocation must be intimated to that Sub-Registrar. S.32A needs the presenter's photo/fingerprints, and each buyer/seller's for a transfer.

Notarisation

Notarise it — makes the deed usable. Courts presume due execution of a notary/Court/Consul-authenticated POA (s.90, Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam). Sign with photo ID. Abroad: notarise, apostille, then stamp within three months.

Witnesses

No statute requires witnesses to a POA — unlike a will (s.63) or gift (s.123, TPA). Sign before two anyway, as proof if disputed — not the Attorney, spouse, advocate, or a case party.

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POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR THE CONDUCT OF LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

This deed is not a vakalatnama. A vakalatnama is the separate written appointment of an advocate under Order III Rule 4 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, which is signed and filed in the court's own record. This deed authorises a named person to instruct advocates and to act for the Principal; the advocate's vakalatnama must still be signed and filed in each case.

Executed at Mohali, Punjab on 1 April 2026.

I, Sudeep Ramesh Sachdeva, son of Late Shri Ramesh Chand Sachdeva, aged about 46 years, resident of Flat 402, Ashok Residency, Sector 70, Mohali 140307, holding PAN ABCDE1234F; Passport Z1234567 (the "Principal", and "I", "me" and "my"),

DO HEREBY NOMINATE, CONSTITUTE AND APPOINT Anil Ramesh Sachdeva, son of Late Shri Ramesh Chand Sachdeva, aged about 52 years, resident of 12 Rose Lane, Sector 35, Chandigarh 160035, holding PAN FGHIJ5678K; Aadhaar ending 4321, who is my elder brother (the "Attorney"),

to be my true and lawful attorney, to do the acts set out below in my name and on my behalf, on the following terms.


1. Why this authority is given

I am unable to attend personally to the conduct of the legal proceedings described below, and I wish a person I trust to instruct advocates and to take the steps that the conduct of those proceedings requires. This deed is executed of my own free will, with a full understanding of what it permits the Attorney to do in my name.

2. What this deed is, and what it is not

This deed appoints the Attorney as my recognised agent for the purposes of Order III Rules 1 and 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, and as a person duly authorised by me for the purposes of Order VI Rules 14 and 15 of that Code.

It does not appoint an advocate. Where an advocate is to be engaged, a vakalatnama in the advocate's favour must be signed — by me, or by the Attorney under the power at clause 6(a) — and filed in the case.

It does not make the Attorney a lawyer. The Attorney has no right to plead or argue on my behalf.

3. Proceedings covered

This deed covers: Civil suits, appeals, execution, and revenue, consumer, tribunal and arbitration proceedings.

4. Subject matter

The proceedings to which this deed relates concern the following:

All disputes concerning the ancestral property at Khewat No. 214, Khasra No. 2, Village Sohana, Tehsil Kharar, District SAS Nagar (Mohali), including the partition suit filed by my cousins and any related revenue mutation proceedings.

Proceedings already begun, so far as known to me:

Special Civil Suit No. 412 of 2024, Civil Judge (Senior Division), Mohali — Sachdeva v. Sachdeva; RTS Appeal No. 87 of 2025, Sub-Divisional Officer, Kharar.

5. Extent of the authority

The authority given by this deed extends to: All proceedings relating to the subject matter described in this deed, whether already begun or begun in future, including every appeal, revision, review, restoration and execution arising out of them.

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