APPLICATION TO SEARCH THE REGISTRATION RECORDS
Application date: 2 April 2026
Applicant: Aarav Sharma, Sector 21, Panchkula. Property: Plot 118, Sector 35-A, Chandigarh (Plot/land), Plot 118, Sector 35-A; prior deed no. 2345..
SEARCH PERIOD
1 April 2026 to 3 April 2026.
SEARCH TERMS
Party names/variants: Harpreet Singh; H. Singh.. Document classes: Transfers and conveyances.
Access requested: Official search by registry staff/system. Historic jurisdiction note: Property was under predecessor Sub-Registrar office before 2006.
Please identify searchable registered instruments matching the property/name/date criteria and provide the references needed for inspection or certified-copy requests.
LEGAL BASIS
Section 55 of the Registration Act, 1908 requires every registration office to keep Book No. 1 and indexes to it, including the index of properties, and section 57 entitles any person to inspect them and to obtain copies of the entries on payment of the fee. In Punjab a Non-Encumbrance Certificate is applied for through the Non-Encumbrance Certificate Issuance System on rcms.punjab.gov.in, over the counter at the Sub-Registrar's office, or through a Sewa Kendra; its issue is a notified service under the Punjab Transparency and Accountability in Delivery of Public Services Act, 2018, with a limit of three days, a first appeal to the Sub-Divisional Magistrate and a second appeal to the Deputy Commissioner. It is a certified statement of what the registers of that office, including Book No. 1 and the index of properties kept under section 55 of the Registration Act, 1908, disclose for the property and the period searched. It cannot report an equitable mortgage created by deposit of title deeds, an unregistered agreement, an oral or family partition, a tenant in possession or a statutory first charge, and a registered lis pendens is the only litigation it will show, so run the property-under-litigation search on the same portal as well. Chandigarh has no notified Non-Encumbrance Certificate service, but the Registration Act, 1908 applies there: the Sub-Registrar at the 30 Bays Building, Ground Floor, Sector 17 keeps Book No. 1 and the index of properties under section 55, and section 57 entitles any person to inspect them and obtain copies. The searches that decide a Chandigarh title are Know Your Property and Know Your Dues on estateoffice.chd.gov.in and a No Dues Certificate from the Estate Office.