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Deed of Revocation of Power of Attorney (Mukhtarnama Mansookhi)

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₹799 · GST included
Stamp duty
Conveys nothing — no ad valorem duty; chargeable as a cancellation, Article 17, Schedule I-A (a small fixed sum, if attested).
Registration
Not compulsory (s.17/18) — but an unregistered revocation of a registered power is nearly worthless, since the index still shows it live.
Witnesses
Two adult witnesses, signing in the Donor's presence — not the Attorney, his family, or anyone benefiting.

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  • Deed of Revocation of Power of Attorney
  • Revocation of Power of Attorney
  • Cancellation of Power of Attorney
  • Deed of Cancellation of GPA
  • POA cancellation deed
  • GPA cancel karan da dastavez
  • Mukhtarnama Mansookhi / ਮੁਖ਼ਤਾਰਨਾਮਾ ਮਨਸੂਖ਼ੀ / मुख्तारनामा मंसूखी
  • Aam Mukhtarnama Mansookhi

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For stopping a power of attorney you gave. Recites the original power, revokes it, and — the part everyone misses — gives notice: s.208, Contract Act 1872 binds the attorney only once he knows, third parties only once they know, so a revocation in a drawer abroad changes nothing at the tehsil. Built around four deliveries: Annexure A, public notice (a Punjabi and an English daily); B, intimation to the Sub-Registrar for a diary number; C, to the Tehsildar/Patwari for jamabandi land; D, to the Chandigarh Estate Officer for a sector site. All four and every search shows the power dead; only the first, and the registry index still shows it live. Usual Doaba case: a wide power given before flying out, then an unauthorised mutation or sale. A POA never transfers title — Suraj Lamp v. State of Haryana, (2012) 1 SCC 656 (11 Oct 2011); and a sale power to a non-family attorney (not spouse/child/parent/sibling/grandparent/grandchild) likely cost 2% of consideration or Collector rate (Article 48(f), Schedule I-A, Indian Stamp (Punjab Amendment) Act 2023) — not refunded on cancellation. For a general or special power, any subject matter. Not for: a power coupled with an interest — securing a loan, a mortgage, sale money received (s.202 protects it); undoing a completed sale/gift/mutation (needs a s.31, Specific Relief Act suit — NRI Civil Court, Jalandhar, or an NRI Wing police complaint may be faster); a deceased/incapacitated principal (agency already ended, s.201 — heirs/guardian need a different route); or cancelling a vakalatnama, board authority, bank mandate or GST entry (their own forms). Caution: the Punjab NRI Commission has civil-court summoning powers but a non-binding recommendation; NRI Sabha Punjab is a society with no legal power. Route complaints there for facilitation; this deed to the Sub-Registrar.

See stamp duty, registration and witnesses

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

Conveys nothing — no ad valorem duty; chargeable as a cancellation, Article 17, Schedule I-A (a small fixed sum, if attested). PUNJAB: Rs 1,000 to cancel a general power, Rs 500 special (revenue.punjab.gov.in, checked 6 Sep 2026 — a GPA itself is Rs 2,000/4,000; SPA Rs 1,000), plus Rs 200 pasting; confirm at the counter — under-stamping is inadmissible (s.35). E-stamp via SHCIL in the Donor's name, dated on/before signing — not months ahead (unlocked certificates over four months get locked, circular 07/15/2026-ST-2(PF-1)/10837). PUNJAB: the 2% paid on the original power (Article 48(f), Indian Stamp (Punjab Amendment) Act 2023, for a non-family sale power) isn't refunded on revocation. Collector rates: district-wise, revised each 1 April. CHANDIGARH (revenue.chd.gov.in, checked 6 Sep 2026): GPAs price at 3% sale power/Rs 75 plain (Rs 150 for over five persons), SPA Rs 15/3% with sale power — no cancellation row, falls back to Article 17; ask at 30 Bays Building. Buy via shcilestamp.com or physical paper. Punjab's 2023 Act doesn't reach Chandigarh. BOTH — signing abroad: stamp within three months of receipt (s.18(1)) or take to the Collector within that window (s.18(2)). Chandigarh property: also EMBOSSED by the Finance Department first (Annexure D).

Registration

Not compulsory (s.17/18) — but an unregistered revocation of a registered power is nearly worthless, since the index still shows it live. Venue: s.28 sends a land-related revocation to the Sub-Registrar of the property; s.29 sends any other (bank/business/case) to the office of execution. Get it noted against the ORIGINAL power's registering office — a purchaser's search index — lodging Annexure B with a copy there too if different. PUNJAB: Sub-Registrar/Joint Sub-Registrar (Tehsildar/Naib Tehsildar ex officio), via Easy Registry/NGDRS. Fees: Rs 400 (general)/Rs 100 (special) registration, facilitation Rs 2,000 — no published cancellation figure, ask before booking. CHANDIGARH: Sub-Registrar, 30 Bays Building, Rooms 1-2, Sector 17 — presentation 12-1pm, registration 3-5pm, duplicate copies. Fee 1% capped Rs 10,000 plus Rs 20 pasting; a plain power's fee is Rs 50 — ask for the cancellation figure. Doesn't close a sector property's loop — Estate Officer needs separate notice (clause 4/Annexure D); Manimajra/lal dora areas use a fard instead. Deeds executed abroad need Chandigarh Finance Department embossing. BOTH: present within four months (s.23), four more on fine (s.25); capacity under ss.32-33 (abroad: s.33(1)(c)); presenter photographed/fingerprinted (s.32A), with identifying witnesses (s.34) if the Donor can't attend.

Notarisation

Floor, not ceiling: a Notaries Act 1952 notary, register serial number and date endorsed, photographed — proves the deed's date if the attorney claims he acted before knowing. Not a registration substitute — neither Sub-Registrar treats a merely notarised revocation as closing a registered power's file. Signing abroad: s.33(1)(c) requires authentication by a Notary Public, Court, Judge, Magistrate or Indian Consul; apostille should legally suffice (Hague, since 2005) but offices often want Indian Mission attestation instead — take the consular route, keep the apostille too, then stamp within three months (s.18). Chandigarh property also needs Finance Department embossing first. G. Kalawathi Bai v. G. Shashikala, 2025 INSC 851 (15 July 2025): authentication required even where the attorney both executes and presents — whoever presents this deed needs their own authenticated authority, photographed/fingerprinted (s.32A) in the Donor's place.

Witnesses

Two adult witnesses, signing in the Donor's presence — not the Attorney, his family, or anyone benefiting. Full name, parentage, address, ID number; Article 17 charges cancellation 'if attested', so attestation is part of why the fixed duty applies. CHANDIGARH: first witness must qualify under para 127, Punjab Registration Manual (Lambardar/Sarpanch/Member Panchayat rural; councillor/gazetted officer/advocate otherwise), both known to each other, first known to the Sub-Registrar — two friends get turned back after duty is paid. PUNJAB: same manual, no fixed first-witness class in practice — two adult non-party witnesses with photo ID. At registration, s.34 requires identifying witnesses and s.32A their photo/fingerprints too — the two attesting witnesses can double if they attend with ID. Donor abroad: presenter needs identifying witnesses known to that office.

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DEED OF REVOCATION OF POWER OF ATTORNEY
(MUKHTARNAMA MANSOOKHI)

THIS DEED OF REVOCATION is made on 3 April 2026 at Jalandhar (Punjab)

BY

Harbhajan Singh Sandhu, son of Late Sardar Gurdial Singh Sandhu, aged about 71 years, retired transport contractor by occupation, residing at X, holding Aadhaar No. X — hereinafter called "the Donor", and referred to in this deed as "I", "me" and "my", which expression includes my heirs, executors, administrators and legal representatives.

CONCERNING THE AUTHORITY GIVEN TO

Jaswinder Singh, son of Sardar Mohinder Singh, residing at X — hereinafter called "the Attorney".

The Attorney is not a party to this deed, has not signed it, and his consent to it is neither required nor implied. Where this deed calls upon the Attorney to do or to refrain from doing anything, it does so by way of a demand founded on the duties the Indian Contract Act, 1872 already puts upon an agent, and not by way of any covenant by him: a person who has not signed an instrument is not bound by a promise written into it.

RECITALS

WHEREAS I ordinarily reside in India.

AND WHEREAS by a General Power of Attorney dated 1 April 2026, executed at Southall, United Kingdom (the "said Power of Attorney"), I appointed the Attorney, who is my late brother's son, to act for me and in my name.

AND WHEREAS the said Power of Attorney authorised the Attorney, in substance, to: manage, cultivate, let out on theka, receive theka money for, appear before the revenue authorities in respect of, and sell, mortgage or otherwise transfer my share in the agricultural land comprised in Khewat No. 214, Khatauni No. 331, Khasra Nos. 45//2, 45//3 situated in village Bhullarai, Tehsil Phillaur, District Jalandhar, and to operate Savings Account No. 000123456789 with Punjab National Bank, Phillaur Branch

AND WHEREAS the said Power of Attorney was registered in the office of the Sub-Registrar, Phillaur, District Jalandhar on 2 April 2026, bearing Document No. 2318 dated 14.08.2017, Book No. IV, Volume 41, Pages 96-99; and the index of that office will go on showing a live power until this revocation is brought on to its record, which is what clause 4 of this deed and the intimation at Annexure B are for.

AND WHEREAS the said Power of Attorney was notarised before Shri R. S. Bajwa, Notary Public, Jalandhar, at Serial No. 1806 of 2017 of the notarial register.

AND WHEREAS the said Power of Attorney related, among other things, to the immovable property described in the Schedule below; and a power of attorney is not an instrument of transfer. The said Power of Attorney did not, and could not by itself, convey to the Attorney or to any other person any title to or interest in that property. A transaction of sale by way of power of attorney, agreement to sell and will conveys no title and is not a valid mode of transfer of immovable property, as the Supreme Court held on 11 October 2011 in Suraj Lamp & Industries (P) Ltd. (II) (Suraj Lamp & Industries (P) Ltd. (II) v. State of Haryana, (2012) 1 SCC 656). Nothing in this deed is to be read as admitting that any title, interest or possession passed under the said Power of Attorney, or as confirming any entry made in any revenue or estate record on the strength of it.

AND WHEREAS I no longer wish the Attorney to act for me, for the following reason: the purpose for which the authority was given has been served, I have not been rendered any account of the theka money since 2021, and I now propose to deal with the said land myself

AND WHEREAS I have decided to revoke the said Power of Attorney to the extent set out below, and to give notice of that revocation to the Attorney, to the registering officer, to the offices that keep the record of whatever the said Power of Attorney concerned, and to the public at large.

NOW THIS DEED WITNESSES as follows.

1. Revocation

1.1 I hereby revoke, cancel, annul and determine the said Power of Attorney, so far as the said Power of Attorney was given by me, with effect from the execution of this deed and subject to clauses 3.2 and 4.1 below. Except so far as this deed expressly identifies authorities as continuing in force, this revocation extends to the whole of the said Power of Attorney and to every authority, power and discretion contained in it, including every authority to appoint a substitute.

This deed accordingly revokes part only of the said Power of Attorney. The following authorities under the said Power of Attorney are not revoked and continue in force, and every other authority, power and discretion contained in the said Power of Attorney is revoked: the authority to let the said land on theka for a term not exceeding eleven months at a time and to receive the theka money on my behalf

For the avoidance of doubt, the authorities revoked by this deed include, without limitation: the authority to sell, exchange, gift, mortgage or otherwise transfer the said land or any part of it, the authority to execute or present any document for registration or to admit execution before any Sub-Registrar, the authority to apply for or consent to any mutation, and the authority to receive any sale consideration or earnest money

1.2 To the extent so revoked, the said Power of Attorney is at an end, and the Attorney has, to that extent, no authority to act for me, in my name or on my behalf; to sign, execute, present for registration, admit execution, receive, deposit, withdraw, contract, compromise, apply for mutation, take or deliver possession, or appear for me before any court, revenue officer, registering officer, estate authority, bank or other person; or to represent to any person that any such authority subsists. Where this deed revokes part only of the said Power of Attorney, this clause applies only to the authorities revoked by it, and the authorities identified above as continuing in force are unaffected.

2. Nature of the agency

2.1 The said Power of Attorney was not given for consideration, and no interest in any property or in the subject matter of the agency was created in favour of the Attorney. The agency is therefore revocable at my instance under section 201 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872.

2.2 I make this revocation in exercise of such right as I have under sections 201 and 203 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872, and I intend this deed to serve as the reasonable notice contemplated by section 206 of that Act.

3. Notice to the Attorney

3.1 A signed copy of this deed shall be served on the Attorney, at the address stated above, by registered post with acknowledgement due, within seven days of the date of execution of this deed and in any event before this deed is presented for registration; and a scanned copy shall be sent by email to X, which supplements that service and does not replace it.

3.2 Under section 208 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872, the termination of the Attorney's authority does not take effect, so far as regards the Attorney, before it becomes known to the Attorney. Proof of despatch, the postal receipt and the acknowledgement due card shall be obtained, preserved with this deed, and produced at the registering counter when this deed is presented, so that the date of knowledge is on the public record and not merely in my own file.

4. Notice to the world: publication and intimation to the public offices

4.1 Under section 208 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872, this revocation does not take effect as regards third persons before it becomes known to them. I shall therefore intimate this revocation to every office whose record a person dealing with the said Power of Attorney would examine, in the terms of the annexures to this deed. As to publication: I shall publish public notice of this revocation, in the terms of the Public Notice at Annexure A, in the newspaper or newspapers named in this clause, and I shall preserve the original tear sheets with this deed.

The Public Notice at Annexure A shall be published in the Punjabi daily newspaper Ajit, Jalandhar edition, set in Gurmukhi script, and the complete printed page showing the masthead and the date of publication shall be preserved with this deed.

The Public Notice at Annexure A shall also be published in the English daily newspaper The Tribune, Jalandhar edition, and the complete printed page showing the masthead and the date of publication shall be preserved with this deed.

What this document is for

Someone who gave a power of attorney uses this to take that authority back — most often after discovering, or fearing, that a wide power given before going abroad is being used for something they never intended. The deed recites the original power, revokes it, and then does the part people most often skip: it gives notice, because a revocation locked in a drawer changes nothing at the tehsil until the attorney, and the world, actually know about it.

It is built around telling four different places: a public notice in the newspapers, an intimation to the Sub-Registrar so the revocation sits against the original power's own registration index, an intimation to the Tehsildar and Patwari for Punjab land, and an intimation to the Chandigarh Estate Officer for a sector site. Skip the notices and the registry can go on looking exactly as it did before this deed was ever signed.

Before you use this — revoking is not just signing, it is telling people

Under section 208 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872, a revocation does not take effect against the attorney until it becomes known to them, and does not take effect against a third party until it becomes known to that party either. That is why this deed's registration, its newspaper notice and its direct intimations to the Sub-Registrar, the Tehsildar and the Estate Officer are not optional extras — they are what actually stops a still-registered-looking power being relied on by someone who never heard it was cancelled.

This deed is also the wrong instrument for two situations it is commonly reached for. It cannot undo a sale, gift or mutation the attorney has already completed — that needs a separate court case, not a revocation. And it cannot unilaterally end a power that was genuinely given to secure a loan or other interest of the attorney's own; that kind of power resists a one-sided cancellation under the law of agency.

Stamp paper and registration

Stamp paper needed

Yes

Typical stamp duty — Punjab

Rs 1,000 to cancel a general power of attorney, Rs 500 to cancel a special one, plus a Rs 200 pasting fee — the stamp duty on the original power already paid is not refunded by cancelling it. Source: the Punjab Revenue Department's published fee table, checked 6 September 2026. Confirm the figure at the Sub-Registrar counter before buying, since the table itself carries no notification number or date.

Typical stamp duty — Chandigarh

Ask us — The Chandigarh Administration's own published table has no cancellation-specific line at all for a power of attorney — it prices the original grant, not its revocation. The template itself says plainly to ask at 30 Bays Building rather than print an invented figure, so treat this as genuinely unresolved rather than assume the ordinary revocation duty (Article 17, Schedule I-A) applies at any particular rupee amount.

Registration at the Sub-Registrar

No — Not compulsory, but registering it anyway is what actually stops the original, still-registered power from looking live on the record a buyer, bank or officer would search. Present within four months of execution for the section 208 notice to reach the Sub-Registrar's own index.

Notary or witnesses

Notarisation is not a substitute for registration, but it fixes the deed's own date if the attorney later claims to have acted before knowing of it. Two adult witnesses attend, never the attorney or anyone who benefits from the power, and in Chandigarh the first witness must come from a specific recognised class the Sub-Registrar knows.

What you will need before you start

  • The full particulars of the original power of attorney — its date, place of execution, whether it was general or special, and exactly what it authorised
  • The original power's registration or notarisation particulars, if it had any, so the revocation can be lodged against the same index
  • The attorney's current address, for serving notice of the revocation on them
  • If the power concerned property, the Punjab tehsil and patwar halqa or the Chandigarh Estate Office site particulars, so the right revenue or estate office can be told
  • Whether this is a full revocation or a partial one, naming precisely what continues if it is only partial
  • A decision on whether to publish a newspaper notice, in which papers, and two witnesses to the signing

Common mistakes

  • Signing the revocation but never serving it on the attorney or intimating the Sub-Registrar, Tehsildar or Estate Officer — leaving the original power looking live on every record that matters.
  • Trying to use this deed to undo a sale or mutation the attorney has already completed, instead of pursuing a court case.
  • Not checking whether the original power was coupled with an interest of the attorney — such as securing a loan — before assuming it can simply be revoked at will.

Questions people ask before using this document

If I sign this deed, is the power of attorney cancelled immediately?

Between you and the attorney, the revocation takes effect from execution. But under section 208 of the Indian Contract Act it does not bind the attorney until they actually know, and does not bind a third party until they know either — which is exactly why this deed also provides for serving notice on the attorney and intimating the Sub-Registrar, the Tehsildar and the Estate Officer.

Can I revoke a power of attorney that was given to secure a loan or a sale already paid for?

Not unilaterally, if the power is genuinely coupled with an interest of the attorney's own within the meaning of the Contract Act — a mortgage or a payment already received, for example. Take advice before using this deed in that situation; it is drafted for the ordinary revocable power, not that one.

What if the attorney has already sold my property under the power?

This deed only stops future use of the power — it does not undo a transaction the attorney has already completed. Reversing an already-completed sale, gift or mutation needs a separate court case, typically a suit to cancel the instrument, not a revocation deed.

Do I have to publish a newspaper notice?

It is not compulsory, but it is recommended. Without it, a stranger who deals with the attorney in genuine ignorance of the revocation may still not be bound by the cancellation under section 208 of the Indian Contract Act — the notice is one of the ways the revocation actually becomes 'known' to people you cannot individually write to.

Do I get back the stamp duty I already paid on the original power?

No. The duty paid on the original power of attorney is not refunded by cancelling it, and this deed does not claim it back — it only ends the authority going forward, on its own separate stamp duty.

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Does the Deed of Revocation of Power of Attorney (Mukhtarnama Mansookhi) need stamp paper or stamp duty in Punjab and Chandigarh?

Conveys nothing — no ad valorem duty; chargeable as a cancellation, Article 17, Schedule I-A (a small fixed sum, if attested).

PUNJAB: Rs 1,000 to cancel a general power, Rs 500 special (revenue.punjab.gov.in, checked 6 Sep 2026 — a GPA itself is Rs 2,000/4,000; SPA Rs 1,000), plus Rs 200 pasting; confirm at the counter — under-stamping is inadmissible (s.35). E-stamp via SHCIL in the Donor's name, dated on/before signing — not months ahead (unlocked certificates over four months get locked, circular 07/15/2026-ST-2(PF-1)/10837).

PUNJAB: the 2% paid on the original power (Article 48(f), Indian Stamp (Punjab Amendment) Act 2023, for a non-family sale power) isn't refunded on revocation. Collector rates: district-wise, revised each 1 April.

CHANDIGARH (revenue.chd.gov.in, checked 6 Sep 2026): GPAs price at 3% sale power/Rs 75 plain (Rs 150 for over five persons), SPA Rs 15/3% with sale power — no cancellation row, falls back to Article 17; ask at 30 Bays Building. Buy via shcilestamp.com or physical paper. Punjab's 2023 Act doesn't reach Chandigarh.

BOTH — signing abroad: stamp within three months of receipt (s.18(1)) or take to the Collector within that window (s.18(2)). Chandigarh property: also EMBOSSED by the Finance Department first (Annexure D).

Does the Deed of Revocation of Power of Attorney (Mukhtarnama Mansookhi) need registration in Punjab and Chandigarh?

Not compulsory (s.17/18) — but an unregistered revocation of a registered power is nearly worthless, since the index still shows it live.

Venue: s.28 sends a land-related revocation to the Sub-Registrar of the property; s.29 sends any other (bank/business/case) to the office of execution. Get it noted against the ORIGINAL power's registering office — a purchaser's search index — lodging Annexure B with a copy there too if different.

PUNJAB: Sub-Registrar/Joint Sub-Registrar (Tehsildar/Naib Tehsildar ex officio), via Easy Registry/NGDRS. Fees: Rs 400 (general)/Rs 100 (special) registration, facilitation Rs 2,000 — no published cancellation figure, ask before booking.

CHANDIGARH: Sub-Registrar, 30 Bays Building, Rooms 1-2, Sector 17 — presentation 12-1pm, registration 3-5pm, duplicate copies. Fee 1% capped Rs 10,000 plus Rs 20 pasting; a plain power's fee is Rs 50 — ask for the cancellation figure. Doesn't close a sector property's loop — Estate Officer needs separate notice (clause 4/Annexure D); Manimajra/lal dora areas use a fard instead. Deeds executed abroad need Chandigarh Finance Department embossing.

BOTH: present within four months (s.23), four more on fine (s.25); capacity under ss.32-33 (abroad: s.33(1)(c)); presenter photographed/fingerprinted (s.32A), with identifying witnesses (s.34) if the Donor can't attend.

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Does the Deed of Revocation of Power of Attorney (Mukhtarnama Mansookhi) need witnesses?

Two adult witnesses, signing in the Donor's presence — not the Attorney, his family, or anyone benefiting. Full name, parentage, address, ID number; Article 17 charges cancellation 'if attested', so attestation is part of why the fixed duty applies.

CHANDIGARH: first witness must qualify under para 127, Punjab Registration Manual (Lambardar/Sarpanch/Member Panchayat rural; councillor/gazetted officer/advocate otherwise), both known to each other, first known to the Sub-Registrar — two friends get turned back after duty is paid.

PUNJAB: same manual, no fixed first-witness class in practice — two adult non-party witnesses with photo ID.

At registration, s.34 requires identifying witnesses and s.32A their photo/fingerprints too — the two attesting witnesses can double if they attend with ID. Donor abroad: presenter needs identifying witnesses known to that office.

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