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Tenant and Paying Guest Police Verification Report (Kirayedar Tasdeeq)

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Price: Free, always.
Stamp duty: Nothing.
Registration: This report is not registrable and no Sub-Registrar will accept it.
Witnesses: None are required and none should be added as attesting witnesses.

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Tenant police verification
Tenant verification form
Kirayedar police verification
Kirayedar tasdeeq
Kirayedar di police verification
Kiraayedaar tasdeeq form
Paying guest police verification
PG verification form

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You can fill this one in on this site, and read the whole draft on screen before you decide anything about it. It is a carefully drafted template; it is not advice about your own facts.

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Why you need it

When you need it

You need this when you have let a house, a floor, a barsati, a servant quarter, a flat or a paying-guest room to somebody, and you now have to tell the police who that person is. In both Punjab and Chandigarh the duty is the landlord's, not the tenant's, and it does not go away because the tenant is a relative, a student, a colleague at work, or somebody a broker vouched for. The duty does not come from the rent law. It comes from a standing prohibitory order made by the District Magistrate under section 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, which replaced section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. Disobeying such an order is an offence under section 223 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, which replaced section 188 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860. That matters in a practical way. These orders are made district by district, they run for a fixed period, typically about sixty days, and they are then re-promulgated. So the correct question is never "is tenant verification compulsory" but "what does the order in force in my district today actually require". A real example of the genre is the order of the Office of the District Magistrate, S.A.S. Nagar (Mohali), Ref. No. DCM/MA/2023/17994 dated 21 August 2023, issued under section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, which required landlords to report tenant particulars to the police and to report any change of tenant, and which was operative only from 11 August 2023 to 10 October 2023. That order has long lapsed. Before you file, open your own district's website or ask at the police station counter for the current order, and put its number and date into the field provided. In Chandigarh this is not a paper formality. Chandigarh Police has registered first information reports against property owners for not reporting their tenants, and has made arrests. The form used there is the Tenant/PG Information Proforma published by Chandigarh Police, and the completed form can be handed in at the area police station, at a police post, at a beat box or at a Sampark Centre. Use this template as the covering report and declaration that goes with that proforma, or as the full record you keep on your own file; where the police counter insists on their own printed proforma, copy the particulars across from here and attach this signed declaration to it. In Punjab the same information is normally submitted through the Saanjh citizen-services channel of the Punjab Police, through the eServices Punjab portal, or over the counter at a Sewa Kendra, and it is then processed by the police station of the area. Note that ppsaanjh.in now redirects to saanjh.punjabpolice.gov.in; both were checked on 6 September 2026 and the portal address moves from time to time, so start from the Punjab Police website rather than from a bookmark. Be clear about what this template does and does not collect, because the Saanjh screen asks for more than a name. It collects every substantive particular the two counters need: the landlord's own particulars and identity document, the address and description of the premises, the occupant's name, parentage, age, gender, occupation, employer or institution, mobile number, identity document and number, the native address down to the village with the police station that covers it, the previous address, the people who will live with the occupant, the terms, the antecedents declared, the vehicles, the previous occupant, and a local identifier. It also collects the four descriptive particulars the Saanjh form asks for that a landlord can honestly supply: identification marks, marital status, educational qualification, the date since which the occupant has been living in Punjab or Chandigarh, and the date the occupant last visited the native place. It deliberately does not collect religion, caste, height or complexion. Height and complexion are columns the operator fills from the identity document and the person in front of the counter, and a landlord's guess at them is worse than a blank. Religion and caste are sensitive personal particulars that this template will not put on a landlord's private file, and the occupant's consent recorded in this report does not extend to them. If the Saanjh screen or the printed proforma compels those columns, fill them at the counter from the occupant's own answer and identity document, not from this report. Do not use this template as a tenancy agreement. It records who is living in your property and reports it to the police; it creates no tenancy, fixes no rent, and gives you no ground of eviction. You still need a written agreement, and in Punjab, where the Punjab Rent Act, 1995 applies to the premises, section 4(1) makes a written agreement compulsory and section 4(2) makes registration of the Schedule I form compulsory. Do not use it as a police clearance certificate or a character certificate. Filing this report tells the police who your tenant is; it does not tell you. If you want to know whether the person has a record, that is the police verification exercise that follows, and the answer comes back to the police station, not to you. Do not use it for a person who is not in occupation of your premises as a tenant or paying guest. Domestic staff, drivers, gardeners and shop employees are covered by a separate servant verification proforma and a separate line in the District Magistrate's order; the particulars asked for are different and a tenant form filed for a servant will simply be returned. Do not use it to report a guest. A relative staying for a fortnight is not a tenant. The trigger is putting somebody into occupation of the premises on rent or on paying-guest terms, and the honest test is whether money or a money's worth is passing for the accommodation. Finally, do not treat this template as a substitute for the printed proforma where a printed proforma exists. Chandigarh Police publishes one and the Punjab Saanjh channel generates one from the online form. This document is the landlord's own signed report and declaration, drafted so that every substantive particular either counter will ask for is already written down, dated and signed by both sides.

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

Nothing. Neither in Punjab nor in Chandigarh does this document attract stamp duty, and you should print it on plain paper. The reason is not a concession, it is the definition. Under section 2(14) of the Indian Stamp Act, 1899 an instrument is a document by which any right or liability is created, transferred, limited, extended, extinguished or recorded. A report telling the officer in charge of a police station who is living in your house does none of those things. There is accordingly no charging article for it, either in Schedule I-A of the Indian Stamp Act, 1899 as applicable to Punjab or in the Chandigarh Administration's published rates. Two figures are nonetheless worth writing down, because people confuse them with stamp duty. The Punjab figure. The Saanjh tenant verification form published at punjab.gov.in prints "Facilitation Charges: Rs. 200" on its face. That is a service charge for processing the application, payable at the Sewa Kendra or through the online channel, and it is not stamp duty. Checked 6 September 2026. The Chandigarh figure. Chandigarh Police's published material for the Tenant/PG Information Proforma sets out no fee at all: the form is handed in at the area police station, police post, beat box or Sampark Centre. Checked 6 September 2026. If a counter asks you for money, ask for a printed receipt and the head under which it is charged before you pay. What does carry stamp duty is the tenancy agreement whose particulars this report repeats, and the two jurisdictions price it very differently, so do not let a Punjab number reach a Chandigarh agreement. Punjab, per the Department of Revenue, Rehabilitation and Disaster Management's document-wise detail of stamp duty, registration fee and facilitation charges at revenue.punjab.gov.in: a pattanama or lease of less than one year attracts 4 per cent of the annual rent; a lease of one to five years attracts 8 per cent of the annual average rent; a lease of five to ten years attracts 3 per cent of the annual average rent; pasting fee Rs 200. Treat the 8 per cent slab with care, because it is higher than the slabs on either side of it and looks like an error in the department's own document, so confirm it at the Sub-Registrar counter before you buy stamp paper. Chandigarh, per the Revenue Department, Chandigarh Administration's stamp duty and registration fees table at revenue.chd.gov.in/SRORegistrationFee.pdf: a lease deed for a period up to five years attracts 2 per cent on the annual average rent and, in addition, 3 per cent on the refundable security deposit — never on advance rent, verified at the Sub-Registrar, SAS Nagar (Mohali), September 2026; above five and up to ten years the first figure becomes 3 per cent; pasting fee Rs 20. There is no separate sub-one-year slab in Chandigarh, so an eleven-month lease sits in the up-to-five-years row. Neither of those two official tables carries a date or a notification number on its face; both were checked on 6 September 2026 and both should be re-checked before you execute. E-stamping, if you need it for the agreement rather than for this report, is through Stock Holding Corporation of India Ltd, the Central Government's appointed agency, and Punjab has launched e-stamping and digital execution of documents through its e-services.

Registration

This report is not registrable and no Sub-Registrar will accept it. Section 17 of the Registration Act, 1908 lists what must be registered, and a report of particulars made to a police officer is not in that list, nor in the optional list in section 18. Do not take it to the Sub-Registrar in either jurisdiction. That is also why this report will happily take an occupation period of any length: it reports a letting, it does not create one, and a landlord holding a registered three-year lease must be able to file the report for it. The "registration" that this document is about is registration with the police, and that is where the two jurisdictions part company on procedure. In Chandigarh you file the Tenant/PG Information Proforma with the Station House Officer of the area police station, or at a police post, beat box or Sampark Centre, and Chandigarh Police also runs an online tenant registration service. There is no prescribed statutory period on the face of the proforma; the District Magistrate's order is what sets the time, so read it and file within it. In Punjab you file through the Saanjh channel of the Punjab Police at saanjh.punjabpolice.gov.in, formerly ppsaanjh.in, or through eServices Punjab, or over the counter at a Sewa Kendra, on payment of the Rs 200 facilitation charge, and the application is routed to the police station of the area. Keep the acknowledgement or application number. It is the proof that you complied. The agreement behind the report is a different matter and it is compulsorily registrable in the ordinary case. In Chandigarh the East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949, extended to the Union Territory by Central Act No. 54 of 1974, contains no registration provision of its own, so section 17(1)(d) of the Registration Act, 1908 governs: a lease from year to year, for a term exceeding one year, or reserving a yearly rent must be registered. Registration fee is 1 per cent on the annual average rent subject to a maximum of Rs 10,000, plus a pasting fee of Rs 20, per the Chandigarh Administration's published table at revenue.chd.gov.in, checked 6 September 2026. Registration is with the Sub-Registrar, Union Territory of Chandigarh, under the Deputy Commissioner, with online appointment and e-registration payment at revenue.chd.gov.in. This is why so many Chandigarh tenancies are written for eleven months. One point of date on that Chandigarh sentence, because it is the assertion here most likely to go stale. As at 6 September 2026 the East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949 continues to govern Chandigarh tenancies, but it does so under an interim order rather than undisturbed: a tenancy enactment in force elsewhere in India was extended to the Union Territory by a notification of the Ministry of Home Affairs dated 6 May 2026 issued under section 87 of the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966, and the Punjab and Haryana High Court kept that notification in abeyance by an interim order dated 29 May 2026, directing that the 1949 Act continue. Re-check that position before you rely on it. The registration conclusion is unaffected whichever way it goes, because it is section 17(1)(d) of the Registration Act, 1908 and not the rent enactment that makes a Chandigarh lease compulsorily registrable. In Punjab the position is stricter where the Punjab Rent Act, 1995, Punjab Act No. 13 of 2012, applies. Section 4(2), as substituted by the Punjab Rent (Amendment) Act, 2013, Punjab Act No. 33 of 2013 dated 16 April 2013, requires every tenancy agreement to be in the Form in Schedule I and to be registered under the Registration Act, 1908 on payment of a registration fee of rupees one thousand, and it says so notwithstanding anything in the Registration Act, 1908. The eleven-month device is legislatively abolished for those premises. But section 3 excludes a great deal: premises let out before the commencement of the Act on 30 November 2013, government premises, and any premises for fifteen years from the date of completion of construction under section 3(1)(c). A new-build tenancy in Ludhiana or Mohali is therefore very often outside the Act and back on plain contract with section 17(1)(d) of the Registration Act, 1908. There is one unresolved conflict you should know about before you pay: section 4(2) prescribes a flat Rs 1,000, while the Punjab Revenue Department's own table prescribes 1 per cent of annual rent for a pattanama or lease, and it is not settled which applies to a Schedule I agreement presented at the counter, or whether Article 35 duty is charged on it at all. Ask at the Sub-Registrar office of the tehsil before you go. Punjab registration is through NGDRS, implemented in all Sub-Registrar offices across the twenty-two districts, per revenue.punjab.gov.in.

Notarisation

Not required, in either Punjab or Chandigarh. This is a signed report and declaration made to a police officer, not an affidavit sworn before a person authorised to administer an oath, and neither the Chandigarh Police proforma nor the Punjab Saanjh form calls for a notary. Sign it, do not swear it, and do not pay a notary fee for it. Self-attestation is what is actually wanted. Every enclosed photocopy of an identity document should be signed across its face by the person to whom it belongs, and the landlord's declaration in the template records that the landlord has seen each original. That is what the counter checks. If an individual police station nonetheless insists on a sworn affidavit rather than a signed declaration, do not argue at the counter and do not guess the stamp paper denomination. An affidavit is a chargeable instrument under Article 4 of Schedule I-A of the Indian Stamp Act, 1899, but neither official rate table carries an affidavit row: the Punjab Revenue Department's document-wise detail of stamp duty at revenue.punjab.gov.in does not list one, and neither does the Chandigarh Administration's stamp duty and registration fees table at revenue.chd.gov.in/SRORegistrationFee.pdf, both checked 6 September 2026. Ask for the current Article 4 denomination at the treasury or from a licensed stamp vendor at the Sub-Registrar office of your tehsil in Punjab, or at the Sub-Registrar, 30 Bays Building, Sector 17 in Chandigarh, and buy exactly that denomination. Then swear the affidavit before a notary or an Oath Commissioner and attach it to this report rather than replacing this report with it.

Witnesses

None are required and none should be added as attesting witnesses. Attestation by two witnesses is what section 3 of the Transfer of Property Act, 1882 requires for the instruments it governs and what section 63 of the Indian Succession Act, 1925 requires for a will. A report of particulars to a police officer is neither, and an attestation block on it serves no legal purpose. Three signatures do appear on the template and each earns its place. The landlord signs because the duty is the landlord's. The occupant signs to confirm the particulars about himself or herself and to consent to their being furnished to the police, which is what makes the enclosed identity copies unobjectionable. The optional local person who identifies the occupant signs where the occupant's documents show an address far from the premises; the Chandigarh proforma anticipates the same need through a beat officer's signature, and having a local identifier already named saves the beat officer a visit. That person's signature is identification only and the template says in terms that he or she is not a surety. Two practical points. Provide for a thumb impression as well as a signature, which the template does, because a paying guest who cannot sign is not a rare case at a Sewa Kendra counter. And take two copies to the counter, so that one comes back to you with the diary number and the receiving officer's endorsement on the acknowledgement counterfoil at the foot of the report. That counterfoil, or the online application number, is the only thing that proves you filed.

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TENANT / PAYING GUEST INFORMATION REPORT AND DECLARATION OF THE LANDLORD

(Report of the particulars of a person put into occupation of let premises, made by the landlord to the officer in charge of the police station within whose jurisdiction the premises lie)

To
The Station House Officer
Police Station Sector 34, Chandigarh
Chandigarh Police
District S.A.S. Nagar (Mohali)

Place: Chandigarh
Date: 7 April 2026

Subject: Report of the particulars of a tenant put into occupation of the premises described in the Schedule below, and declaration of the landlord.

Sir / Madam,

WHY THIS REPORT IS BEING MADE

I am the landlord of the premises described in the Schedule below. I have put a tenant into occupation of those premises. I am required to report that person's particulars to the officer in charge of the police station within whose jurisdiction the premises lie, under the standing prohibitory order for the time being in force in this district, made by the District Magistrate under section 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, which replaced section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. Disobedience of such an order is an offence under section 223 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, which replaced section 188 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.

This report is being submitted by hand at the area police station, at a police post, at a beat box or at a Sampark Centre, together with the Tenant/PG Information Proforma published by Chandigarh Police. I request that it be taken on record and that an acknowledgement be endorsed on the counterfoil at the foot of this report.

Order relied upon: Order of the District Magistrate, S.A.S. Nagar, Ref. No. DCM/MA/2026/xxxxx dated 12 August 2026, under section 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.

PART ONE - PARTICULARS OF THE LANDLORD

Name: Harpreet Singh Bedi
Relation: son of Gurdev Singh Bedi
Age: 54 years
Occupation: Retired bank officer
Residential address: House No. 1204, Sector 27-B, Chandigarh 160019
Mobile number: +91 XXXXX XXXXX
Email address: harpreet.bedi@example.com
Identity document produced: Aadhaar Card
Number of that document: XXXX XXXX 4821

PART TWO - PARTICULARS OF THE PREMISES LET

Address of the premises let: First Floor, House No. 3186, Sector 40-D, Chandigarh 160036
Description: the premises let is an independent house.
Number of rooms in the occupation of the person named in Part Three: 2

PART THREE - PARTICULARS OF THE OCCUPANT

Category of occupation: tenant
Name: Ramanpreet Kaur
Relation: son of Jaswinder Singh
Age: 27 years
Gender: Male
Marital status: married
Occupation: Software engineer
Employer, business or educational institution, with full postal address and telephone number:
Infosys Ltd, Plot No. 1, Rajiv Gandhi Chandigarh Technology Park, Chandigarh 160101, telephone 0172 XXXXXXX
Educational qualification: B.Tech (Computer Science)
Visible marks of identification: Mole on right cheek
Mobile number: +91 XXXXX XXXXX
Email address: ramanpreet.k@example.com
Identity document produced and copied: Aadhaar Card
Number of that document: XXXX XXXX 9073
Permanent address, with house number, street, village or mohalla, tehsil, district, State and PIN code: House No. 47, Ward No. 6, Village Ghanaur, Tehsil Ghanaur, District Patiala, Punjab 140702
Police station within whose jurisdiction the permanent address falls: Police Station Ghanaur, District Patiala
Address at which the occupant last resided before taking these premises: Flat No. 302, Tower C, Silver City, Zirakpur, District S.A.S. Nagar 140603
Living in Punjab or Chandigarh since: 4 April 2026
Date on which the occupant last visited the permanent address: 5 April 2026
Manner of residence: the occupant will reside at the premises alone.
Vehicles kept at the premises by the occupant, with registration numbers: Maruti Swift, PB 65 AT 1188; Honda Activa, CH 01 BX 4402

Questions about this document

Does the Tenant and Paying Guest Police Verification Report (Kirayedar Tasdeeq) need stamp paper or stamp duty in Punjab and Chandigarh?

Nothing. Neither in Punjab nor in Chandigarh does this document attract stamp duty, and you should print it on plain paper.

The reason is not a concession, it is the definition. Under section 2(14) of the Indian Stamp Act, 1899 an instrument is a document by which any right or liability is created, transferred, limited, extended, extinguished or recorded. A report telling the officer in charge of a police station who is living in your house does none of those things. There is accordingly no charging article for it, either in Schedule I-A of the Indian Stamp Act, 1899 as applicable to Punjab or in the Chandigarh Administration's published rates.

Two figures are nonetheless worth writing down, because people confuse them with stamp duty.

The Punjab figure. The Saanjh tenant verification form published at punjab.gov.in prints "Facilitation Charges: Rs. 200" on its face. That is a service charge for processing the application, payable at the Sewa Kendra or through the online channel, and it is not stamp duty. Checked 6 September 2026.

The Chandigarh figure. Chandigarh Police's published material for the Tenant/PG Information Proforma sets out no fee at all: the form is handed in at the area police station, police post, beat box or Sampark Centre. Checked 6 September 2026. If a counter asks you for money, ask for a printed receipt and the head under which it is charged before you pay.

What does carry stamp duty is the tenancy agreement whose particulars this report repeats, and the two jurisdictions price it very differently, so do not let a Punjab number reach a Chandigarh agreement. Punjab, per the Department of Revenue, Rehabilitation and Disaster Management's document-wise detail of stamp duty, registration fee and facilitation charges at revenue.punjab.gov.in: a pattanama or lease of less than one year attracts 4 per cent of the annual rent; a lease of one to five years attracts 8 per cent of the annual average rent; a lease of five to ten years attracts 3 per cent of the annual average rent; pasting fee Rs 200. Treat the 8 per cent slab with care, because it is higher than the slabs on either side of it and looks like an error in the department's own document, so confirm it at the Sub-Registrar counter before you buy stamp paper. Chandigarh, per the Revenue Department, Chandigarh Administration's stamp duty and registration fees table at revenue.chd.gov.in/SRORegistrationFee.pdf: a lease deed for a period up to five years attracts 2 per cent on the annual average rent and, in addition, 3 per cent on the refundable security deposit — never on advance rent, verified at the Sub-Registrar, SAS Nagar (Mohali), September 2026; above five and up to ten years the first figure becomes 3 per cent; pasting fee Rs 20. There is no separate sub-one-year slab in Chandigarh, so an eleven-month lease sits in the up-to-five-years row. Neither of those two official tables carries a date or a notification number on its face; both were checked on 6 September 2026 and both should be re-checked before you execute.

E-stamping, if you need it for the agreement rather than for this report, is through Stock Holding Corporation of India Ltd, the Central Government's appointed agency, and Punjab has launched e-stamping and digital execution of documents through its e-services.

Does the Tenant and Paying Guest Police Verification Report (Kirayedar Tasdeeq) need registration in Punjab and Chandigarh?

The "registration" that this document is about is registration with the police, and that is where the two jurisdictions part company on procedure. In Chandigarh you file the Tenant/PG Information Proforma with the Station House Officer of the area police station, or at a police post, beat box or Sampark Centre, and Chandigarh Police also runs an online tenant registration service. There is no prescribed statutory period on the face of the proforma; the District Magistrate's order is what sets the time, so read it and file within it. In Punjab you file through the Saanjh channel of the Punjab Police at saanjh.punjabpolice.gov.in, formerly ppsaanjh.in, or through eServices Punjab, or over the counter at a Sewa Kendra, on payment of the Rs 200 facilitation charge, and the application is routed to the police station of the area. Keep the acknowledgement or application number. It is the proof that you complied.

The agreement behind the report is a different matter and it is compulsorily registrable in the ordinary case. In Chandigarh the East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949, extended to the Union Territory by Central Act No. 54 of 1974, contains no registration provision of its own, so section 17(1)(d) of the Registration Act, 1908 governs: a lease from year to year, for a term exceeding one year, or reserving a yearly rent must be registered. Registration fee is 1 per cent on the annual average rent subject to a maximum of Rs 10,000, plus a pasting fee of Rs 20, per the Chandigarh Administration's published table at revenue.chd.gov.in, checked 6 September 2026. Registration is with the Sub-Registrar, Union Territory of Chandigarh, under the Deputy Commissioner, with online appointment and e-registration payment at revenue.chd.gov.in. This is why so many Chandigarh tenancies are written for eleven months.

One point of date on that Chandigarh sentence, because it is the assertion here most likely to go stale. As at 6 September 2026 the East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949 continues to govern Chandigarh tenancies, but it does so under an interim order rather than undisturbed: a tenancy enactment in force elsewhere in India was extended to the Union Territory by a notification of the Ministry of Home Affairs dated 6 May 2026 issued under section 87 of the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966, and the Punjab and Haryana High Court kept that notification in abeyance by an interim order dated 29 May 2026, directing that the 1949 Act continue. Re-check that position before you rely on it. The registration conclusion is unaffected whichever way it goes, because it is section 17(1)(d) of the Registration Act, 1908 and not the rent enactment that makes a Chandigarh lease compulsorily registrable.

In Punjab the position is stricter where the Punjab Rent Act, 1995, Punjab Act No. 13 of 2012, applies. Section 4(2), as substituted by the Punjab Rent (Amendment) Act, 2013, Punjab Act No. 33 of 2013 dated 16 April 2013, requires every tenancy agreement to be in the Form in Schedule I and to be registered under the Registration Act, 1908 on payment of a registration fee of rupees one thousand, and it says so notwithstanding anything in the Registration Act, 1908. The eleven-month device is legislatively abolished for those premises. But section 3 excludes a great deal: premises let out before the commencement of the Act on 30 November 2013, government premises, and any premises for fifteen years from the date of completion of construction under section 3(1)(c). A new-build tenancy in Ludhiana or Mohali is therefore very often outside the Act and back on plain contract with section 17(1)(d) of the Registration Act, 1908. There is one unresolved conflict you should know about before you pay: section 4(2) prescribes a flat Rs 1,000, while the Punjab Revenue Department's own table prescribes 1 per cent of annual rent for a pattanama or lease, and it is not settled which applies to a Schedule I agreement presented at the counter, or whether Article 35 duty is charged on it at all. Ask at the Sub-Registrar office of the tehsil before you go. Punjab registration is through NGDRS, implemented in all Sub-Registrar offices across the twenty-two districts, per revenue.punjab.gov.in.

What does the Tenant and Paying Guest Police Verification Report (Kirayedar Tasdeeq) cost on Kaagazaat?

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Does the Tenant and Paying Guest Police Verification Report (Kirayedar Tasdeeq) need witnesses?

Three signatures do appear on the template and each earns its place. The landlord signs because the duty is the landlord's. The occupant signs to confirm the particulars about himself or herself and to consent to their being furnished to the police, which is what makes the enclosed identity copies unobjectionable. The optional local person who identifies the occupant signs where the occupant's documents show an address far from the premises; the Chandigarh proforma anticipates the same need through a beat officer's signature, and having a local identifier already named saves the beat officer a visit. That person's signature is identification only and the template says in terms that he or she is not a surety.

Two practical points. Provide for a thumb impression as well as a signature, which the template does, because a paying guest who cannot sign is not a rare case at a Sewa Kendra counter. And take two copies to the counter, so that one comes back to you with the diary number and the receiving officer's endorsement on the acknowledgement counterfoil at the foot of the report. That counterfoil, or the online application number, is the only thing that proves you filed.

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