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Someone made fake papers for my land

What usually matters in this situation, and the papers to keep ready before you meet an advocate or free legal aid (call 15100).

Your situation

• What is happening? Someone has fake documents / sold it

Papers to gather

• Title deed (sale deed, gift deed, partition deed, patta) — certified copy
  The foundation of any claim. Where: Your records; certified copy from sub-registrar.
• Earlier chain of title deeds (previous owners)
  Answers rival claims. Where: Sub-registrar.
• Revenue records: record of rights, khatian/7-12/jamabandi, mutation entries
  Shows record changes. Where: State land records portal, tehsil.
• Survey map, layout plan, sketch with boundaries and measurements
  Needed for boundary disputes. Where: Survey office, layout approval.
• Land revenue / property tax receipts and utility bills
  Supports possession. Where: Municipality, tehsil.
• Dated photos/videos of the land before and after the encroachment
  Shows the encroachment. Where: Your phone; neighbours.
• Encumbrance certificate
  Detects fraudulent sales. Where: Sub-registrar / portal.
• Names of neighbours who know the boundaries and your possession
  Supporting witnesses. Where: —

You may also need, depending on your answers

• Copies of police/revenue complaints and replies — Shows you acted in time.

What the law says

Saboot will also ask

• What kind of land is it?
• How did you get it?
• Since when?
• Who is in physical possession now?

Similar situations

• Someone built on my plot while I was away
• Relatives occupying my land and refusing to leave
• Boundary dispute with the neighbour’s farm
• Land records show someone else’s name
• Road to my land blocked by others
• Government land allotted to me taken by others
• Land grabbers threatening me

Sources

• Specific Relief Act, 1963
• Limitation Act, 1963
• Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

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