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An empty flat with white walls and a glossy beige tiled floor, morning sun falling through a barred window, a ring of brass keys hanging from the window sill. Papers & law8 min read किराएदार रखने से पहले — काग़ज़, पुलिस, पैसा।

Renting out your house: agreement, registration, tenant verification

Letting a flat in Indore? The agreement, when registration becomes compulsory, telling the police station, the deposit, and closing it all on paper.

3 Oct 2026 An unfinished concrete apartment tower with open upper floors and an idle tower crane stands behind a corrugated metal fence at the end of a quiet residential lane in morning haze. Papers & law7 min read शिकायत का भी तरीका होता है।

How to file a RERA complaint in Madhya Pradesh

Form M or Form N, ₹1,000, and a folder in date order. How a complaint to MP RERA works, what to ask for, and what it cannot do for you.

3 Oct 2026 A vacant plot of cracked dark soil marked by white corner pillars and a chalk line beside a new tar road, with half-built brick houses behind it. Papers & law8 min read ज़मीन का भी आधार

Bhu-Aadhaar (ULPIN): the 14-character ID every land parcel is getting

Bhu-Aadhaar, or ULPIN, tells you which parcel you are looking at. It does not tell you who owns it, or whether the land is clean. Here is the difference.

3 Oct 2026 An elderly man in a white shirt and dhoti walks along a quiet lane past an old tiled-roof family house behind a yellow wall and a blue iron gate, a large mango tree over it. Papers & law8 min read गिफ़्ट, वसीयत, या बैनामा?

Gift, will or sale: moving property inside a family

A gift deed works today, a will on death, a sale deed only with real payment. How to choose between them, and the three family mistakes to avoid.

3 Oct 2026 A smiling couple hands a blue folder across a light wooden counter to a smiling clerk in a bright office with glass walls and potted plants. Papers & law8 min read बैनामे में क्या लिखा है?

Inside the sale deed: the clauses, the schedule and the indemnity

Seven parts of a sale deed, the schedule that decides what you actually bought, and the indemnity clause most standard drafts quietly leave out.

3 Oct 2026 A man's hand holds a bunch of brass keys above a woman's open palm, her wrist full of coloured bangles, in the doorway of an empty, newly finished flat. Papers & law8 min read CC और OC — बिना इनके क़ब्ज़ा मत लीजिए।

Occupancy certificate and completion certificate: two papers, two jobs

A completion certificate says the building matches its plan. An occupancy certificate says you may live in it. Ask for both before you take the keys.

3 Oct 2026 A small single-room house with a wooden door, potted plants and a red scooter stands on a walled plot between two larger houses. Papers & law8 min read क़ब्ज़ा मालिकाना हक़ नहीं है।

Possession is not ownership

The owner on paper and the person on the plot can be two different people. How to find out who holds the land you are buying, and why it matters.

3 Oct 2026 Weathered hands hold a smartphone with a dark screen at the edge of a ripening wheat field, a narrow dirt path running away into the crop. Papers & law7 min read अपना खसरा ख़ुद निकालिए।

Pull your own land record: khasra and B1 in three steps

Your khasra and B-1 are public and searchable on the state's own portal, no sign-in needed to view. The right address, the search, and how to read it.

3 Oct 2026 A raised earthen bund with a footpath runs between a field of tall green wheat and a field of leafy crops at sunset, a farmer walking along it in the distance. Papers & law7 min read खेत पर चार ताले।

Four locks on farmland: ceiling, tribal, Bhoodan and government-allotted land

None of them is about price and none shows on the field. Four legal locks on farmland in Madhya Pradesh, and how to check for them first.

3 Oct 2026 A narrow paved lane between old two-storey houses with blue doors, potted plants on balconies and a blue scooter parked by the steps. Papers & law7 min read मालिकाना या पट्टा?

Freehold or leasehold: the difference that does not show on the plot

Two plots on the same street can be two different things: one owned outright, one held on a lease that runs down. How to tell which you are buying.

3 Oct 2026 Three purple thumbprints in a row on an old sheet of paper, with two blank ovals beside them and ink pads at the edge. Papers & law8 min read एक वारिस छूट गया, तो सौदा अधूरा है।

Inherited land: why every heir has to sign

Buy inherited land from four heirs out of six and you own four-sixths, not the plot. Who counts as an heir, and the papers that settle every share.

3 Oct 2026 A narrow record room lined with metal shelves stacked with bundles of old files tied with string, lit by one bare bulb. Papers & law7 min read साफ़ टाइटल एक ज़ंजीर है।

Clear title is not a certificate: how to read the chain of title

Nobody issues a certificate saying your land is fine. Clear title is a chain of owners with no gap, traced back thirty years. How to read it, and its limits.

3 Oct 2026 A thick stack of old, frayed papers tied with a red cloth ribbon sits on a wooden office desk, with a lamp and steel cupboards behind. Papers & law8 min read मुख़्तारनामा मालिकाना हक़ नहीं है।

Power of attorney, agreement to sell, will: why none of them transfers land

An agreement to sell, a power of attorney, a will and a receipt can fill a file and still leave the land in the seller's name. Here is why, and what to ask.

3 Oct 2026 Four members of a family sit around a wooden kitchen table with a folder and loose papers between them, nobody writing yet. Papers & law8 min read नाम किसके?

Whose name goes on the sale deed

Who paid and whose name is on the deed are two different questions. What the choice changes, and why to settle it at home, weeks early, not at the desk.

8 Sep 2026 An elderly man's hands pass a bundle of documents tied with string and a ring of keys across a wooden table to a young woman's hands. Papers & law8 min read एक दिन — और ज़िंदगी भर का काग़ज़।

Registry day: what happens, and mutation afterwards

Stamp duty, the four-month clock, Aadhaar at the counter, e-registration from home, and why a registered deed still leaves mutation to be done.

8 Sep 2026 Two men shake hands across a wooden table with a stack of blank papers and a pen lying between them. Papers & law7 min read टोकन देने से पहले

The token: the agreement that comes before the sale deed

The token is the first money you pay and the moment you have least on paper. Six things to put in the agreement to sell before it moves.

8 Sep 2026 A thick stack of old, worn papers tied with jute twine lies on a dark wooden table Papers & law7 min read काग़ज़ पूरे हैं?

The five documents that decide whether land is safe

The land is usually fine; the paper decides. The five documents that separate a plot you can build on from one you can only argue about, and how to read each.

8 Sep 2026 A man in a blue shirt walks along the footpath of an established colony at dusk, street lamps lit above him and a small park behind Papers & law9 min read ज़मीन देख ली — बनाने वाले को देखा?

How to verify a developer in Indore

A clean plot from a developer who does not finish is still a problem. An afternoon in a colony they completed, five things to look at, what they must prove.

8 Sep 2026 A bare concrete frame of a five-storey building, half clad in brick and wrapped in bamboo scaffolding, stands over a wet street of auto-rickshaws under a grey sky. Papers & law7 min read रजिस्टर्ड है — पर किसका?

What RERA does, and what it does not

Who must register with MP RERA, what an agent's number means, and the four checks a registration does not replace: title, ownership, coverage and sanction.

8 Sep 2026 An elderly pair of hands turning the ruled pages of a worn cloth-bound register on a wooden table by a window. Papers & law8 min read काग़ज़ों के शब्द

Seven words on your papers: khasra, khatauni, diversion, FAR, mutation and more

Khasra, khatauni, diversion, layout sanction, guideline rate, FAR and setback, mutation: what each word on your plot's papers means, and why it matters.

8 Sep 2026 A yellow measuring tape hooked to the foot of a rough concrete boundary wall and run out along the ground of an empty plot. Papers & law8 min read सरहद का झगड़ा।

How boundary disputes start, and the cheap half of avoiding them

Boundary disputes begin as a few feet nobody measured. The six ways a line goes wrong, and the five cheap things to do before you build.

8 Sep 2026 Seen from above, a standing wheat crop on one side of an earth bund and freshly walled brick plots on the other. Papers & law9 min read खेत से प्लॉट तक

Farmland to plots: what diversion changes, and what it does not

Diversion only changes what a parcel is assessed for on the revenue record. The two permissions that must follow, and which paper to ask for by date.

8 Sep 2026 A padlocked iron gate between concrete pillars opens onto an empty walled plot, with a neem tree and half-built houses beyond at sunset Papers & law9 min read इस ज़मीन पर किसी का हक़ तो नहीं?

The encumbrance question: is a loan or a court order already on the land?

A plot can carry a mortgage, a court attachment or a pending suit you cannot see from the gate. What an encumbrance certificate shows, and what it misses.

8 Sep 2026 An open cardboard box of old papers tied with string, on a wooden table in a sunlit living room Papers & law10 min read क़ब्ज़े के बाद

After you own it: property tax and municipal records

Who taxes your plot, why the seller stays liable until the record is changed, and what a tax receipt does and does not prove about ownership.

8 Sep 2026

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