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Public Notice Inviting Claims and Objections Before Purchase (Akhbari Ishtihar)

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Stamp duty: Nil in both states — not chargeable under Schedule I-A either way; no stamp paper, e-stamp or court fee.
Registration: Not registrable — s.17 doesn't reach it; neither Sub-Registrar accepts it for filing.
Witnesses: None on the notice — signed by the advocate or purchaser; no attesting-witness rule applies (s.3, TPA covers mortgages; s.63, Succession Act covers wills).

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Akhbari ishtihar
ishtihar
ishtihaar
akhbar wala notice
akhbar vich notice
paper notice
paper publication
newspaper notice before sale

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Buying property in Punjab or Chandigarh, you want anyone with an unmentioned claim — a mortgagee, a left-out heir, a tenant, an agreement-holder, a decree-holder, a bank holding the title deed — to surface before money moves. An advocate publishes in one English and one Punjabi daily circulating locally, waits out the period, then lets the purchase complete; bank panel advocates must publish before a clear TIR. Punjab's jamabandi isn't a title register (s.44/s.45: only a presumption, rebuttable by suit) — an oral partition, a married daughter's share, a title-deed mortgage, a gair marusi tenant, or a court decree need not appear. The Punjabi daily reaches the halqa; English-only in a Chandigarh edition reaches nobody who could answer. Chandigarh: no jamabandi for sector property (the Estate Officer's file IS title); since 2025, mutation auto-triggers on registration, so the affidavit pack must be right AT registration. Publication flushes an unpaid premium (Central Government's under s.3(3), 1952 Act, until paid), ground-rent arrears, a misuse proceeding, or a non-family co-owner. Villages (Manimajra, lal dora/phirni) are the exception. Also used to disown an old GPA — published revocation, naming the instrument and date, puts a later purchaser on notice. NOT for: the Estate Office's OWN notice; a Fard Badar; a caveat/legal notice/lis pendens; or a substitute for the searches (jamabandi trail, NEC, dues search, possession check). No law compels it and it doesn't clear bad title — silence isn't consent. Value is evidential (ss.3 & 41, TPA 1882) and practical.

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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

Nil in both states — not chargeable under Schedule I-A either way; no stamp paper, e-stamp or court fee. PUNJAB deed rates: sale/gift 5% + 1% Social Infrastructure Cess (s.3-D) + 1% PIDB (s.25, 2002 Act), plus a 0.25% Special Infrastructure Fee (s.25-A, omitted from the dept's own table — ask which is taken: 7% or 7.25%); registration fee 1%, min Rs 50/max Rs 2,00,000 (Notification S.O.11/C.A.16/1908/Ss.78&79/Amd./2019, 4 Feb 2019); facilitation Rs 1,000-5,000 by tier; Rs 200 pasting; Rs 600 mutation fee — on the higher of consideration or the Collector rate (DC, Rule 3-A, Punjab Stamp Rules 1983, effective 1 April). Source: revenue.punjab.gov.in table, undated, 6 Sep 2026. Punjab remits DUTY (not necessarily the cess/2002-Act fees, unresolved; the 1% registration fee is certainly still payable) on a lifetime transfer to children/grandchildren/siblings (Order S.O.28/C.A.2/1899/S.9/2014, extended by S.O.227/.../2010) — ask before budgeting nil. A widely quoted FEMALE-BUYER concession (Notification S.O.127/C.A.2/1899/S.9/2010) is an unreadable scan, the table draws no gender line, and quoted rates contradict — assume none. CHANDIGARH: sale/gift/conveyance 5% on the higher of consideration/value, registration 1% capped Rs 10,000 + Rs 20 pasting (Administration schedule and DC calculator both confirm 5%/Rs 10,000 as run 6 Sep 2026) — portals wrongly say 6%; confirm at 30 Bays Building; no cess, no infra fee, no female concession. Agreement to sell 5% on token money; exchange 3%; family settlement 2%; lease-right transfer 3%; blood-relation exempt (fee still runs). Collector rates, 1 Apr 2026-31 Mar 2027: Sectors 1-12 Rs 2,37,900/sq yd, 14-37 Rs 1,81,300, 38+ Rs 1,33,200, Sector 17 SCO/SCF Rs 5,92,200 (DC office, 25 Mar 2026) — the calculator itself was stale on Sectors 1-12 as of 6 Sep 2026, so take the base from this schedule. For an affidavit of publication: Punjab e-stamp via SHCIL (above Rs 49,999); Chandigarh e-Sampark to Rs 500, then a vendor to Rs 50,000, then the Central Treasury.

Registration

Not registrable — s.17 doesn't reach it; neither Sub-Registrar accepts it for filing. Publication IS the substitute. PUNJAB: deed presented before the Tehsildar/Naib Tehsildar via NGDRS 3.0 (all 22 districts). Sale/lease/GPA registration = 1-day notified service (2018 Act); certified copy 7 days; NEC 3 days. On registration: Parcha Yadasht to the Tehsildar's office, Patwari enters the intkal, CRO attests, recovers Rs 600 (s.38). Uncontested-mutation limit: 45 days (Easy Jamabandi's 30-day promise, 13 Jun 2025, is unconfirmed as a notified limit). s.39: fine up to 5x for late reporting. Appeals: 30/60/90 days. CHANDIGARH: Sub-Registrar, 30 Bays Building, Sector 17 — noon-1pm presentation, 3-5pm registration. Freehold sale/gift/transfer/exchange deeds in triplicate. Since 2025, mutation auto-triggers — why the affidavit-cum-indemnity must be filed AT the Sub-Registrar, and a leasehold transfer needs the Estate Office NOC + unearned increase settled FIRST. Change of ownership: 30 days; where the Estate Office itself notices: 40 + 20 more. Your page is a RECORD, not a registration — file it with the title file, the lender's TIR, and by hand to the Sub-Registrar/Tehsildar or Estate Officer.

Notarisation

Not required — no counter asks for it, only identity. Notarisation attaches to papers AROUND the notice — a publication affidavit, an affidavit-cum-indemnity, a lost-title-deed declaration, an heirs' indemnity bond — Chandigarh's Estate Office accepts one instead of an Executive Magistrate's. Two traps abroad: a Chandigarh Estate Office document executed outside India must FIRST be embossed by its Finance Department; and an abroad-executed instrument may be stamped within 3 months of reaching India (s.18), while a non-resident principal's POA needs a Notary/Court/Judge/Magistrate/Consul (s.33(1)(c)) — an apostille should suffice, though consular attestation is reportedly preferred. A GPA with sale power outside the family is 2% in Punjab (entry 48(f), 2023 Act) — 3% in Chandigarh (plain GPA: Rs 75).

Witnesses

None on the notice — signed by the advocate or purchaser; no attesting-witness rule applies (s.3, TPA covers mortgages; s.63, Succession Act covers wills). Witnesses matter at the DEED. PUNJAB: two for a sale/agreement/lease/mortgage/exchange/gift/partition deed; present within 4 months (+4 on a fine up to 10x the fee). CHANDIGARH: two witnesses, the first qualifying under para 127, Punjab Registration Manual, both known to each other and the first to the Sub-Registrar.

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PART A — TEXT FOR PUBLICATION

Everything in Part A goes to the newspaper exactly as it stands, in both the English daily and the Punjabi daily. Nothing from Part B-1, Part B-2 or Part C is published.

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PUBLIC NOTICE
(Notice inviting claims and objections before purchase)

Public notice is given by the undersigned on behalf of my clients, Harpreet Kaur, W/o Sardar Gurmeet Singh, resident of X, and X, S/o Sardar Gurmeet Singh, resident of House No. 512, Phase 3B2, S.A.S. Nagar (Mohali) (hereinafter together called "the intending purchaser"). The intending purchaser proposes to purchase the residential plot more particularly described in the Schedule below (hereinafter called "the said property").

The said property is proposed to be purchased from Mohan Lal, S/o Late Shri Kishori Lal, resident of X, and from Smt. Kamla Devi, W/o Shri Mohan Lal, and Shri Rakesh Kumar, S/o Shri Mohan Lal, both of the same address, each holding a 1/6th share in Khewat No. 214 (hereinafter called "the proposed seller", and where more than one person is named above, all of them together). The proposed seller represents that the said property belongs to the proposed seller and to no one else, in the shares recorded against each of them; that the proposed seller is in exclusive and peaceful possession of it and that no other person is in possession of any part of it; and that it is free from all encumbrances, claims, charges and demands.

The proposed seller claims title to the said property under and by virtue of: Sale Deed dated 12.03.2011, registered as Vasika No. 4521 dated 14.03.2011 in the office of the Sub-Registrar, Ludhiana-I, followed by Mutation (Intkal) No. 3061 sanctioned on 22.11.2011.

Title to the said property is recorded in the jamabandi and mutation register maintained by the Halqa Patwari for the revenue estate in which it lies. The undersigned has, on behalf of the intending purchaser and on 1 April 2026, inspected and taken copies of the following: Jamabandi for the year 2021-22 for Khewat No. 214, Khatauni No. 391, Hadbast No. 118, Village Jhande, Tehsil Ludhiana-I; Mutation Nos. 3061 and 3540; Non-Encumbrance Certificate No. NEC/2026/11842 dated 18.08.2026 issued through rcms.punjab.gov.in. This notice is issued because an entry in a record of rights is presumed to be true only until the contrary is proved, and because the claim that has never reached the record is precisely the claim this notice exists to bring out.

ALLOTMENT, LEASE OR ESTATE PARTICULARS: The said property is further stated to be held as follows: Residential plot allotted by GMADA vide Allotment Letter No. 8/2009 dated 04.05.2009; conveyance deed not yet executed; permission to transfer under s.43(7) of the Punjab Regional and Town Planning and Development Act 1995 and a No Dues Certificate are still to be obtained from the Estate Officer, PUDA Bhawan, Sector 62, S.A.S. Nagar. Any person disputing that allotment or lease, or claiming any right, interest, premium, ground rent, penalty or other dues under it, or asserting that the permission to transfer, no objection certificate or no dues certificate required for its transfer has not been obtained or cannot be obtained, is called upon to respond to this notice.

SUCCESSION: The proposed seller further states that the said property originally belonged to the late X, who died on 2 April 2026, and that the persons entitled to succeed to the estate of the deceased are: 1. Smt. Kamla Devi, widow; 2. Shri Mohan Lal, son; 3. Smt. Sunita Rani, married daughter, who is stated to have relinquished her share. The devolution is said to be evidenced by Legal Heir Certificate No. 2214 dated 09.08.2019 issued by the Tehsildar, Ludhiana-I, and Varasat Mutation No. 3540 sanctioned on 22.11.2019. Any other person claiming to be an heir, legatee, beneficiary or dependant of the said deceased, or claiming under any will, codicil, gift, trust, settlement, family arrangement, oral or recorded partition, relinquishment, maintenance right or agreement, is specifically called upon to respond to this notice.

POWER OF ATTORNEY: The sale is proposed to be executed through X, claiming to act under Special Power of Attorney dated 17.01.2024, executed at London and authenticated by the Consul General of India, registered as Vasika No. 812 dated 04.03.2024 in the office of the Sub-Registrar, Jalandhar-I. Any person disputing the grant, genuineness, scope, subsistence or revocation of that power of attorney is called upon to respond to this notice. The intending purchaser records that a power of attorney, an agreement to sell and a will, whether singly or in combination, do not convey title, and that immovable property passes only by a registered deed of conveyance (Supreme Court of India, 11 October 2011).

REVOKED AUTHORITY: Public notice is further given that the following authority stands revoked, cancelled or disowned, and that no person may deal with the said property, receive any money in respect of it or present any instrument concerning it on the strength of that authority: General Power of Attorney dated 08.06.2014 in favour of Shri Jarnail Singh, S/o Shri Bakhshish Singh, registered as Vasika No. 2216 in the office of the Sub-Registrar, Nawanshahr, revoked by Deed of Cancellation dated 02.08.2026 registered as Vasika No. 1140 in the same office. Any person who has acted, or proposes to act, upon it is called upon to disclose the fact in response to this notice.

MISSING ORIGINALS: The proposed seller states that the following original document(s) are not traceable and are said to have been lost or misplaced: Original Sale Deed dated 12.03.2011 (Vasika No. 4521) and the original Allotment Letter dated 04.05.2009. Any person having the custody or possession of the said original document(s), whether by way of deposit, mortgage, security, pledge, lien or otherwise, is called upon to disclose the same in response to this notice.

DISCLOSED CHARGE: It is disclosed that the said property is presently subject to the following: Housing loan of Punjab National Bank, Model Town Branch, Ludhiana, secured by mortgage by deposit of title deeds; the outstanding is to be discharged and the charge released before completion. The proposed seller has undertaken to have the same fully discharged and released, and the corresponding entry in the record corrected, before completion of the purchase. This notice is issued without prejudice to that disclosure.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that any person having or claiming any right, title, interest, share, claim or demand of whatsoever nature in or over the said property or any part of it — whether by way of ownership, co-ownership, inheritance, will, gift, trust, settlement, partition (whether by decree, by revenue order or oral), family arrangement, sale, agreement to sell, power of attorney, part performance, possession, tenancy whether marusi or gair marusi, theka, batai, licence, sub-lease, mortgage whether registered or by deposit of title deeds, charge, lien, easement, right of way, right of irrigation or watercourse, maintenance, adverse possession, decree or order of a civil, revenue or consolidation court, attachment, injunction, lis pendens, acquisition, requisition, shamlat or Panchayat claim, consolidation or repartition entry, unpaid land revenue, ground rent, premium, misuse or non-construction charge, municipal or property tax, or any other statutory due, or in any other manner howsoever — is hereby called upon to make the same known in writing to the undersigned.

This notice is being published in one English daily and one Punjabi daily. Any such claim must reach the undersigned within seven (7) days from the date on which this notice is LAST published, so that a person who sees only the earlier of the two publications loses nothing by it. The claim must (a) set out the nature and extent of the claim, (b) be signed by the claimant or by the claimant's authorised advocate, (c) give the claimant's full name, parentage, postal address, telephone number and e-mail, and (d) be accompanied by legible copies of the documents relied upon, including any fard or jamabandi, mutation, rapat, allotment or re-allotment letter, or registered deed.

Claims and objections are to be sent to: Sanjeev Mehta, Advocate, X; e-mail: X; telephone: X.

If no claim or objection is received within the said period, the intending purchaser will proceed to complete the purchase on the footing that the said property is free from all claims and encumbrances, and no person failing to respond will thereafter be heard to say that the purchase was made without enquiry or otherwise than in good faith. This notice is issued by way of public enquiry and information. It does not by itself waive, extinguish, bar or determine any right that any person may have in law.

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Does the Public Notice Inviting Claims and Objections Before Purchase (Akhbari Ishtihar) need stamp paper or stamp duty in Punjab and Chandigarh?

Nil in both states — not chargeable under Schedule I-A either way; no stamp paper, e-stamp or court fee.

PUNJAB deed rates: sale/gift 5% + 1% Social Infrastructure Cess (s.3-D) + 1% PIDB (s.25, 2002 Act), plus a 0.25% Special Infrastructure Fee (s.25-A, omitted from the dept's own table — ask which is taken: 7% or 7.25%); registration fee 1%, min Rs 50/max Rs 2,00,000 (Notification S.O.11/C.A.16/1908/Ss.78&79/Amd./2019, 4 Feb 2019); facilitation Rs 1,000-5,000 by tier; Rs 200 pasting; Rs 600 mutation fee — on the higher of consideration or the Collector rate (DC, Rule 3-A, Punjab Stamp Rules 1983, effective 1 April). Source: revenue.punjab.gov.in table, undated, 6 Sep 2026.

Punjab remits DUTY (not necessarily the cess/2002-Act fees, unresolved; the 1% registration fee is certainly still payable) on a lifetime transfer to children/grandchildren/siblings (Order S.O.28/C.A.2/1899/S.9/2014, extended by S.O.227/.../2010) — ask before budgeting nil. A widely quoted FEMALE-BUYER concession (Notification S.O.127/C.A.2/1899/S.9/2010) is an unreadable scan, the table draws no gender line, and quoted rates contradict — assume none.

CHANDIGARH: sale/gift/conveyance 5% on the higher of consideration/value, registration 1% capped Rs 10,000 + Rs 20 pasting (Administration schedule and DC calculator both confirm 5%/Rs 10,000 as run 6 Sep 2026) — portals wrongly say 6%; confirm at 30 Bays Building; no cess, no infra fee, no female concession. Agreement to sell 5% on token money; exchange 3%; family settlement 2%; lease-right transfer 3%; blood-relation exempt (fee still runs). Collector rates, 1 Apr 2026-31 Mar 2027: Sectors 1-12 Rs 2,37,900/sq yd, 14-37 Rs 1,81,300, 38+ Rs 1,33,200, Sector 17 SCO/SCF Rs 5,92,200 (DC office, 25 Mar 2026) — the calculator itself was stale on Sectors 1-12 as of 6 Sep 2026, so take the base from this schedule.

For an affidavit of publication: Punjab e-stamp via SHCIL (above Rs 49,999); Chandigarh e-Sampark to Rs 500, then a vendor to Rs 50,000, then the Central Treasury.

Does the Public Notice Inviting Claims and Objections Before Purchase (Akhbari Ishtihar) need registration in Punjab and Chandigarh?

Not registrable — s.17 doesn't reach it; neither Sub-Registrar accepts it for filing. Publication IS the substitute.

PUNJAB: deed presented before the Tehsildar/Naib Tehsildar via NGDRS 3.0 (all 22 districts). Sale/lease/GPA registration = 1-day notified service (2018 Act); certified copy 7 days; NEC 3 days. On registration: Parcha Yadasht to the Tehsildar's office, Patwari enters the intkal, CRO attests, recovers Rs 600 (s.38). Uncontested-mutation limit: 45 days (Easy Jamabandi's 30-day promise, 13 Jun 2025, is unconfirmed as a notified limit). s.39: fine up to 5x for late reporting. Appeals: 30/60/90 days.

CHANDIGARH: Sub-Registrar, 30 Bays Building, Sector 17 — noon-1pm presentation, 3-5pm registration. Freehold sale/gift/transfer/exchange deeds in triplicate. Since 2025, mutation auto-triggers — why the affidavit-cum-indemnity must be filed AT the Sub-Registrar, and a leasehold transfer needs the Estate Office NOC + unearned increase settled FIRST. Change of ownership: 30 days; where the Estate Office itself notices: 40 + 20 more.

Your page is a RECORD, not a registration — file it with the title file, the lender's TIR, and by hand to the Sub-Registrar/Tehsildar or Estate Officer.

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Does the Public Notice Inviting Claims and Objections Before Purchase (Akhbari Ishtihar) need witnesses?

None on the notice — signed by the advocate or purchaser; no attesting-witness rule applies (s.3, TPA covers mortgages; s.63, Succession Act covers wills).

Witnesses matter at the DEED. PUNJAB: two for a sale/agreement/lease/mortgage/exchange/gift/partition deed; present within 4 months (+4 on a fine up to 10x the fee). CHANDIGARH: two witnesses, the first qualifying under para 127, Punjab Registration Manual, both known to each other and the first to the Sub-Registrar.

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