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Complaint for Delay in Returning Title Deeds

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  • Letter to bank for release of original property documents after loan closure
  • title deed release reminder
  • complaint for non-return of original title deeds
  • RBI 30-day property document release complaint
  • claim for Rs. 5,000 per day compensation for delay in releasing title deeds
  • letter for satisfaction of charge and return of documents
  • escalation letter to Principal Nodal Officer for title deeds
  • complaint where the bank says the title deeds are lost.

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For when a loan secured on property is fully repaid or settled, the account is closed, and the lender hasn't returned your title deeds or removed its registry charge. RBI's circular of 13 September 2023 (DoR.MCS.REC.38/01.01.001/2023-24) requires regulated lenders to release all original property documents and remove registered charges within 30 days of repayment/settlement. For lender-attributable delay beyond that, it must give written reasons and pay Rs. 5,000/day compensation. If originals are lost/damaged, the lender must help get duplicates at its cost, with an extra 30 days (60 total) before compensation starts. States the rule, computes the days and money, demands the documents and charge satisfaction, and sets the escalation ladder: branch, then the Principal Nodal Officer/Grievance Redressal Officer, then — bank/NBFC — the RBI Ombudsman under the Reserve Bank – Integrated Ombudsman Scheme, 2026; a housing finance company goes to the National Housing Bank instead (same entitlement, different route). Also covers the lender saying the deeds are lost. Don't use this if: the 30-day period fell due before 1 December 2023; the loan isn't a 'personal loan' in RBI's sense (business/firm/company/LLP/trust loans are outside the compensation entitlement, though the demand itself still works); the account isn't yet closed, or closure is disputed; your lender is an unregulated credit society or chit fund (co-operative BANKS, RRBs, small finance banks, NBFCs/HFCs, AIFIs and ARCs ARE covered); or you're a legal heir claiming after the borrower's death (a different request).

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What follows is the position for this kind of document. The amount is set by the state the property is in and it changes, so the figure for your own state is worth confirming at the sub-registrar’s office before you pay anything.

Stamp duty

None — a complaint/demand letter creates or extinguishes no right, so it's not an "instrument" under s.2(14), and no Schedule I article charges it. Plain paper or letterhead. Two points, only if the lost-documents procedure is invoked. If the lender asks YOU to execute an indemnity/affidavit, that's a different, separately-stamped document (Article 34, or 35 in Maharashtra, for indemnity; Article 4 for affidavits), usually notarised — don't sign a blank one; the RBI circular puts the cost of duplicates on the lender. Conversely, an indemnity FROM the lender (paragraph 7.3(f)) is stamped at the lender's cost — don't supply that paper.

Registration

None — creates no property right (s.17). The separate mortgage discharge matters: a registered mortgage's discharge is normally registered; a deposit mortgage's satisfaction is at CERSAI (and the Sub-Registrar, if required). Demand confirmation of both.

Notarisation

Not required — adds cost, no more force than a signed letter. What matters is proof of receipt: sign in ink, keep a copy, get it acknowledged.

Witnesses

None — needs proof of delivery instead: a branch stamp on a second copy, or, if refused, the date/time/refuser's name and same-day registered post.

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Rakesh Kumar Malhotra
Flat 802, Sunrise Residency, Plot 14, Sector 21, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai 410210, Maharashtra
Mobile: +91 XXXXX XXXXX
Email: rakesh.malhotra@example.com

Date: 1 April 2026

To
The Branch Manager
XYZ Housing Finance Limited
Kharghar Branch, Navi Mumbai
Shop 3-5, Ground Floor, Vardhman Arcade, Sector 7, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai 410210
Email: kharghar.branch@xyzhfc.example.in

Sent: By hand, against acknowledgement

SUBJECT: LOAN ACCOUNT NO. HL/KHR/2016/0043128 — CLOSED ON 3 April 2026 — ORIGINAL PROPERTY DOCUMENTS NOT RELEASED — DEMAND FOR RELEASE OF DOCUMENTS, SATISFACTION OF CHARGE, AND COMPENSATION OF Rs. 13,25,000 UNDER RBI CIRCULAR DoR.MCS.REC.38/01.01.001/2023-24 DATED 13 SEPTEMBER 2023

Dear Sir / Madam,

  1. THE LOAN ACCOUNT

1.1 I am the borrower under the Housing Loan bearing Loan Account No. HL/KHR/2016/0043128, serviced at your Kharghar Branch, Navi Mumbai.

1.2 Sunita Malhotra is the co-borrower under the same loan account and joins in this letter.

1.3 The sanctioned amount was Rs. 42,00,000.

1.4 The sanction letter is dated 2 April 2026.

  1. THE SECURITY

2.1 The loan was secured by a mortgage over the following immovable property ("the Property"):

Flat No. 802, 8th Floor, 'A' Wing, Sunrise Residency Co-operative Housing Society Ltd., built on Plot No. 14, Sector 21, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai 410210, admeasuring 78.5 sq. m. carpet area, within the limits of Panvel Municipal Corporation and the registration sub-district of Panvel, District Raigad.

  1. THE ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS DEPOSITED WITH YOU

3.1 In connection with the loan, the following original documents were deposited with you and have remained in your custody since:

  1. Original Agreement for Sale dated 12.06.2016 registered at Sr. No. PVL-4/5231/2016.
  2. Original Index-II.
  3. Original stamp duty and registration fee receipts.
  4. Original Allotment Letter dated 02.05.2016 issued by the developer.
  5. Original Possession Letter dated 28.11.2016.
  6. Original Share Certificate No. 118 (Distinctive Nos. 586-590) issued by the Society.
  7. Original chain of title documents: Deed of Conveyance dated 04.03.2011 in favour of the Society.
  1. THE LOAN IS CLOSED

4.1 I closed the loan account on 3 April 2026 by full prepayment. Nothing is outstanding on the account.

4.2 This is evidenced by your No Dues Certificate dated 4 April 2026, a copy of which is enclosed.

  1. YOUR OBLIGATION AND THE TIME LIMIT

5.1 The Reserve Bank of India, by its circular DoR.MCS.REC.38/01.01.001/2023-24 dated 13 September 2023 titled "Release of Movable / Immovable Property Documents on Repayment/Settlement of Personal Loans", has directed that regulated entities shall release all original movable and immovable property documents, and remove charges registered with any registry, within a period of 30 days after full repayment or settlement of the loan account.

5.2 The same circular directs that the borrower shall be given the option of collecting the original documents either from the banking outlet or branch where the loan account was serviced, or from any other office of the regulated entity where the documents are available, as per the borrower's preference.

5.3 The same circular further directs that in case of delay in releasing the original documents, or in filing the charge satisfaction form with the relevant registry, beyond 30 days after full repayment or settlement, the regulated entity shall communicate to the borrower the reasons for such delay; and that where the delay is attributable to the regulated entity, it shall compensate the borrower at the rate of Rs. 5,000 for each day of delay.

5.4 The same circular further directs that where the original property documents are lost or damaged, in part or in full, the regulated entity shall assist the borrower in obtaining duplicate or certified copies and shall bear the associated costs, in addition to paying the compensation referred to above; and that in such cases an additional period of 30 days is available to the regulated entity to complete that procedure, with the delayed-period compensation being calculated thereafter, that is, after a total period of 60 days.

5.5 The circular expressly states that the compensation provided under it is without prejudice to the borrower's right to any other compensation available under any applicable law.

5.6 Accordingly, your obligation to release the original documents listed in paragraph 3 and to remove the charge over the Property fell due on 5 April 2026.

  1. THE POSITION TODAY

6.1 You have not completed the release of the original documents listed in paragraph 3, and you have not furnished me with written confirmation that the charge over the Property has been satisfied in the records of every registry in which it was registered.

6.2 The position on partial return is as follows:

Only the original Share Certificate No. 118 was returned on 20.01.2026 against my acknowledgement. Items 1 to 5 and item 7 of the list above remain with you.

The release is complete only when every original document listed in paragraph 3 has been handed back. A partial return does not stop the period of delay from running.

6.3 On my own search, the charge created in your favour over the Property continues to appear in the Central Registry (CERSAI). Until that entry is removed, the Property cannot be dealt with, whatever the position on the paper documents.

6.4 I have followed this up with you as set out below, and each attempt has been fruitless:

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