Buying property? You now need to submit an ID proof

The next time you approach the authorities for registration of a property, make sure to carry your ID proof. This applies to whether you are a buyer or a seller.

The new regulation aims at controlling the fast growing incidents of fraud in land and property deals.

The regulation makes it mandatory for people to present any one of the 14 government-approved identity proofs at the time of property registration.

The stamp and register of the state office has issued the instructions to all district sub-registrar offices to check the identity of all buyers and sellers and take the attested copies of their photo ID proofs.

The order says: "Under the Registration Act 1908 section 82(G), doing registration of property with fake identity is a serious punishable crime.

It has been observed recently that instead of the original owners of the land or property, fake persons are doing buying-selling deeds by creating fake identity and the original owner has to fight legal battle to save his own property.

To prevent innocent people from being victims of the frauds, all sub-registrars of the state are being instructed hereby to check original government approved photo IDs of both the parties and take the attested copies of the original ID proofs."