A Bench of Justices Rajesh Bindal and Manmohan held that courts should guard towards a rising tendency to assail registered devices with out agency factual foundations, warning that such an method undermines certainty in property transactions.
Registration imparts a robust presumption of validity and genuineness that can’t be diluted by routine or loosely pleaded challenges, the Bench underlined.
“A registered sale deed carries with it a formidable presumption of validity and genuineness. Registration will not be a mere procedural formality however a solemn act that imparts excessive diploma of sanctity to the doc. Consequently, a Court docket should not flippantly or casually declare a registered instrument as a ‘sham’,” the Court docket stated.
Thus, the Court docket known as for digitisation of registered paperwork and land information to forestall repeated disputes over the authenticity of paperwork.
