APPLICATION FOR THE ISSUE OF A NO DUES CERTIFICATE
(Union Territory of Chandigarh)
(Annexure-1 to the checklist of the Estate Officer, Union Territory of Chandigarh)
To,
The Branch Incharge (Dues Branch), Office of the Estate Officer, Union Territory of Chandigarh, Town Hall Building, Sector 17-C, Chandigarh 160017
Date: 5 April 2026
Subject: Application for a No Dues Certificate in respect of House No. 1204, Sector 15-B, Chandigarh, required for the execution and registration of a conveyance deed of the said property.
Sir / Madam,
- WHO IS APPLYING. I, Harpreet Singh Bedi, son of Sh. Gurbachan Singh Bedi, resident of House No. 1204, Sector 15-B, Chandigarh 160015, apply for a No Dues Certificate in respect of the property described in paragraph 2 below. The dues to which this application relates arise under the Capital of Punjab (Development and Regulation) Act, 1952 and the Chandigarh Estate Rules, 2007 - in particular the annual ground rent charged by Rule 12 of those Rules and the charges that Rule 15 places on a transferee - and the issue of the certificate is a notified service under the Punjab Right to Service Act, 2011 as extended to this Union Territory. I am the allottee in whose name the said property stands on the records of the office.
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JOINT HOLDER. The said property is held jointly. Jaspreet Kaur Bedi, wife of Sh. Harpreet Singh Bedi, resident of House No. 1204, Sector 15-B, Chandigarh 160015, joins in this application and has signed it below, and swears the affidavit at Annexure B-1. A No Dues Certificate for a jointly held Chandigarh property is applied for by all the holders together, and the office is requested to issue one certificate covering the whole of the said property and not a share of it.
SIGNED BY AN ATTORNEY. This application is signed on behalf of the holder of the said property by Sh. Amarjit Singh, son of Sh. Kartar Singh, resident of House No. 88, Sector 21-A, Chandigarh, under a General Power of Attorney dated 4 March 2024 registered at Serial No. 1122 with the Sub-Registrar, UT Chandigarh. An attested copy of the power of attorney, and of the identity document of the attorney, is enclosed. The attorney confirms that the power has not been revoked and that the principal is alive as on the date of this application.
- THE PROPERTY. House No. 1204, Sector 15-B, Chandigarh, being residential property situated in the Union Territory of Chandigarh, held on a leasehold basis. In this application it is called "the said property".
Area of the site or unit: 10 marla (about 302.5 square yards).
Property identification or account number on the records of the office: EO/RES/15B/1204.
- HOW THE SAID PROPERTY IS HELD. The said property came to be held by way of an original allotment made by the Estate Officer, evidenced by Allotment Letter No. EO/AL/1988/4471 dated 1 April 2026.
Physical possession of the said property was delivered on 2 April 2026. Rule 8 of the Chandigarh Estate Rules, 2007 requires a building on an allotted or auctioned site to be completed within three years of the delivery of possession, extendable by five further years on payment of a penalty of 10%, 15%, 20%, 25% and 30% of the total consideration money for the first to the fifth extended year respectively, and the position of the said property on that head is stated at paragraph 6. Rule 1(ii) of those Rules applies them to allotments and auctions made after 7 November 2007, and the said property was allotted on 1 April 2026; where the allotment is earlier, what governs the said property is the rule in force at the time and saved by Rule 20(ii), and nothing in this paragraph is an admission that the Rule 8 penalty applies to it.
HOUSING BOARD ALLOTMENT. The said property is a dwelling unit allotted by the Chandigarh Housing Board under the 1996 Self Financing Scheme, Category MIG (Duplex), Dwelling Unit No. 3021, Sector 41-D. This application is made to the Board, and the applicant states, so far as Regulation 16 of the Chandigarh Housing Board (Allotment, Management and Sale of Tenements) Regulations, 1979 and the Board's Citizens' Charter require:
(a) that the period of five years from the date of delivery of physical possession recorded at paragraph 3 above has expired, or that the unit was allotted under the General Self Financing Housing Scheme, Sector 63, where a transfer within the lock-in period is permitted on payment of the specified fee;
(b) that no conveyance deed has yet been executed in respect of the unit by the Board;
(c) that there is no dispute pending about the title to the unit; and
(d) that where this certificate is sought for a transfer, the allottee and the intending purchaser apply jointly, and the intending purchaser named at paragraph 10 below has signed this application at the place provided for the purpose after the verification.
- PREMIUM. The entire premium of the said property, together with all interest and every other amount due on it, has been paid in full to the allotting authority.
The premium of the said property is Rs 1,48,000.
The entire premium, with interest and every other amount due on it, was paid on 3 April 2026. The applicant is aware that under section 3(3) of the Capital of Punjab (Development and Regulation) Act, 1952 the site continues to belong to the Central Government until the whole of the consideration money together with interest and any other amount due is paid, and that a certificate under this application is the ordinary way of proving that the section has been satisfied.
- GROUND RENT AND GOODS AND SERVICES TAX. Ground rent arises on a leasehold site and does not arise on a freehold one. On a leasehold site of the Estate Office, Rule 12 of the Chandigarh Estate Rules, 2007 fixes the annual ground rent at 2.5% of the premium for the first thirty-three years of the lease, 3.75% of the premium for the next thirty-three years and 5% of the premium for the last thirty-three years; it is payable without any demand from the office, on the 10th day of the month following the month in which it falls due; and late payment attracts a penalty of up to 100% of the amount due, recoverable as arrears of land revenue under section 8 of the Capital of Punjab (Development and Regulation) Act, 1952.
The position of the said property on this head is as follows. No ground rent arises on the said property, which is held on freehold tenure; Rule 12 of the Chandigarh Estate Rules, 2007 charges ground rent on a leasehold site only.
The annual ground rent payable on the said property is 2.5% of the premium, the site being in the first period of thirty-three years of the lease.
Ground rent has been paid and credited up to 4 April 2026, and the receipts or challans for the last three payments are enclosed.
The goods and services tax on the ground rent has been paid along with the ground rent for every year up to the date shown above.
Where ground rent is payable on the said property, the office is requested to state in the certificate the date up to which the ground rent, and the goods and services tax charged on it, stand paid and credited, separately from the date up to which the premium stands paid, because the lease of a Chandigarh site runs for thirty-three years from the date of execution of the lease deed under Rule 11 of the Chandigarh Estate Rules, 2007 and the ground rent continues to fall due throughout that period whatever the state of the premium account.
- THE BUILDING ON THE SAID PROPERTY. The document produced with this application to establish the status of the building on the said property is the Occupation Certificate issued by the Estate Office in respect of the building on the site. Where a No Dues Certificate is sought on a leasehold site for the purposes of a conveyance deed, a lease deed, a transfer no objection certificate or a conversion of tenure, the office requires the Occupation Certificate or, failing that, the sewerage connection certificate; and failing both of those, a permanent electricity or water connection release certificate together with the certificate of a Registered Architect. What is produced here is stated above; where the site is vacant and no building has been raised on it, that is what is stated instead.
Particulars of the Occupation Certificate: Occupation Certificate No. EO/OC/2014/887 dated 22 August 2014.
Particulars of the sewerage, electricity or water connection certificate produced: Sewerage connection certificate issued by the Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh, No. MCC/SEW/2013/2291 dated 9 May 2013, connection number 15B-1204-S.
Particulars of the certificate of the Registered Architect: Certificate dated 3 June 2026 of Ar. R. Vasudevan, Council of Architecture Registration No. CA/1998/22417. The architect's registration with the Council of Architecture is current, and the certificate is given under the self-certification scheme introduced by the Chandigarh Building Rules (Urban), 2017.
- USE OF THE SAID PROPERTY. The said property is being used strictly for the purpose for which it was allotted, no portion of it is under misuse, and no notice under Rule 10 of the Chandigarh Estate Rules, 2007 is pending against it. The applicant is aware that Rule 9 of the Chandigarh Estate Rules, 2007 confines the use of a site or building to the purpose for which it was allotted, that Rule 10 of those Rules provides for a charge of Rs 500 per square foot of the area under misuse per month or part of a month, payable jointly and severally by the transferee and the occupier, that the charge is payable within fifteen days of the order with interest at 1.5% a month on delay, and that a No Dues Certificate does not cure a misuse and does not stop the office from proceeding under Rule 10 or under section 8-A of the Capital of Punjab (Development and Regulation) Act, 1952. The applicant further notes that Rule 1(ii) of those Rules applies them to allotments and auctions made after 7 November 2007, and that the said property was allotted on 1 April 2026; where the allotment is earlier, what governs the said property is the rule in force at the time and saved by Rule 20(ii), and nothing in this application is an admission that the charge under Rule 10 applies to the said property or an acceptance of the rate at which it has been computed.
THE MISUSE OR BUILDING VIOLATION POSITION. Show cause notice No. EO/MIS/2025/1204 dated 11 April 2025 alleging commercial use of the ground floor. The tenancy was terminated on 30 April 2025, possession of the ground floor was resumed and a reply was filed on 6 May 2025. No charge has been assessed. The allotment is of 1988 and the applicant does not accept that the Rule 10 rate applies to it.
- THE STATE OF DUES. To the best of my knowledge no amount whatsoever is outstanding against the said property on any head. The office is requested to satisfy itself, from its own books and from the account of the said property, on every head on which money can be owed to it, and to certify the position head by head. The heads that both offices keep are the premium or price of the allotment and every instalment of it; interest on anything paid late; any charge that the office itself bills on the said property; the fee for any permission already granted; the transfer fee; and any amount payable under an order of a competent authority that has not been set aside.