Ashok Kumar v. Nand Lal Etc.
IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA
AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision: 19.11.2015 Ashok Kumar ..Appellant versus Nand Lal and anothers 4Respondents CORAM: Hon'ble Mr.Justice Kuldip Singh
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/77( B M/s K.B. Saha & sons Pvt. Ltd. V. Development Consultant Ltd., 2009(1) LJR Supreme Court 427, Jai Ram Agrawal v. The 6 th Additional District Judge, Allahabad and others , 1988(2) AIRCJ 45, Jagdish Parshad and another v. Madan Lal, HRR 1989 52,
Dhanti Devi v. Firm Goyal Iran Trading Co. & Others, HRR 1993 236, Budh Ram v. Rallia Ram, 1991(1) LJR 805, Choeth Ram v. Shri Deep Chand and another, 1977(1) RCR (Rent) 499, Surinder Kumar v. Rattan Lal, 2006(3) RCR (Civil) 291. % !
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The question, therefore, that arises is : whether a lease of immoveable property from month to month or for 11 months is a compulsorily registerable document, through it was reduced to writing as an instrument defined under Section 2(14) of the Stamp Act? A conjoint reading of the first part of section 107 read with Section 17(1) (d) of the Registration Act, as extracted hereinbefore, does indicate that a lease of immoveable property from year to year, or for any term exceeding one year or reserving a yearly rent should be made only by a registered instrument and all other instruments, though reduced to writing and possession is delivered thereunder, are not compulsorily registerable instruments.
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Section 49 of the Registration Act prohibits receiving in evidence certain types of documents. It reads as under :
"No document required by Section 17 by any provision of
the Transfer of Property Act, 1882 to be registered shallBB (a) affect any immovable property comprised therein, or (c) be received as evidence of any transaction affecting such property or conferring such power;
unless it has been registered:"
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DD..The combined effect of all the provisions is that an unregistered lease deed executed from month to month, for a period not exceeding 11 months, though reduced to writing and possession is delivered thereunder to a tenant, is not a compulsorily registerable instrument and, therefore, the prohibition contained in Section 49 of the Registration Act is inapplicable. Therefore, the document is admissible in evidence to consider the effect of the immovable property contained therein or to receive as an evidence of any transaction visBaBvis such property. 2
& Victor Industries and others v. Banarasi Lal, 2007(1) RCR (Rent) 62 and Udai Singh v. Dhara Singh, 2014(1) RCR (Rent) 452. 2Satish Kumar's case (supra), =!//
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