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Court judgments on property title, stamp duty and circle rate revisions, land record and registration notifications, SARFAESI and RERA changes. Every item is tagged with the topic it touches and the state it binds, because stamp duty, land records and RERA rules are state subjects and differ across India.
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A registered deed records that an instrument was executed, not that the seller had title to convey. The ruling matters for anyone treating a registration receipt as the end of a title check.
· IndiaLawsource
Buyers who have paid money but are not yet allottees on paper can file before the authority, so a complaint cannot be thrown out for want of a completed allotment.
· LiveLawsource
Form 141 becomes the challan-cum-statement for property transfers and Form 132 replaces Form 16B. Form 141 carries a separate stamp duty value field, and the Rs 50 lakh threshold applies on consideration or stamp duty value, whichever is higher.
· TaxGurusource
RBI requires banks, co-operative banks and NBFCs to display borrower and guarantor names, outstanding amount, asset classification and the title holder for every secured asset possessed under SARFAESI, updated monthly.
· TaxGurusource
The Bill reworks the 1908 registration framework, including online registration and the treatment of instruments such as mortgage by deposit of title deeds that today sit outside compulsory registration.
· LiveLawsource
Uttar Pradesh's stamp and registration department has approved a hike of up to 25% in circle rates, the government-notified minimum value used for stamp duty, across different zones of Bareilly district, effective from August 25, 2026. The revision varies by locality, with the steepest increases applied to fast-appreciating residential and commercial pockets.
· Grihiksource
The Rajasthan Cabinet approved amendments to the Rajasthan Land Revenue Rules, 2007, setting new land allotment ceilings of 2 hectares per MW for solar and wind projects and 2.5 hectares per MW for hybrid projects. Developers must now reserve 10 percent of their allotted project land for tree plantation, following protests over the felling of Khejri trees in western Rajasthan.
· Energetica Indiasource
The Delhi High Court set aside a lower court's possession decree that had been passed under Order XII Rule 6 of the Civil Procedure Code (judgment on admissions) in a dispute involving a disputed licence deed and an alleged loan transaction, holding that contested ownership and the true nature of the transaction require a full trial rather than a summary decree. The case was sent back for trial on the merits.
· RawLawsource
The RBI has issued draft Interest Rates on Loans and Advances Directions, 2026 that for the first time apply detailed interest rate rules, including monthly interest charging and daily reducing balance computation, to NBFCs and housing finance companies. The new rules would apply to new loans from April 1, 2027, with all existing loans required to migrate to the new framework by April 1, 2029.
Haryana's Real Estate Regulatory Authority has extended the completion timelines of its registered projects by four months, citing supply chain disruption from the West Asia conflict as a force majeure event. The extension follows a similar four month extension already granted by Maharashtra RERA and a Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs advisory to all state RERAs.
· Business Standardsource
The Supreme Court declined to order a single, uniform nationwide policy for regularising old unauthorised constructions, saying the issue is a policy matter that varies by state. The bench, led by Chief Justice Surya Kant, asked States and Union Territories to consider the issue themselves instead.
· Bar and Benchsource
Bihar will complete a phased rollout making deed preparation, stamp duty payment, biometric verification and digital signatures fully online across all 141 registration offices by August 17, 2026, after a first phase of 10 offices from July 11 and a second phase of 40 offices from July 30. Registered applicants will receive a digital copy of the deed via WhatsApp or email, and doorstep registration will be offered to citizens aged 75 and above.
· Patna Presssource
The Delhi High Court stayed enforcement of a decree favouring the Centre in a dispute over Sujan Singh Park, holding that questions about whether the government could re-enter and resume the land under the Government Grants Act 1895 raise substantial issues that deserve a full appeal, especially given the family's possession since 1943. Eviction was paused pending the outcome of the appeal.
· RawLawsource
The Assam Cabinet sanctioned Rs 2,100 crore for the first phase of land acquisition for the Aerotropolis Satellite City project near Guwahati airport, out of an estimated Rs 4,000 crore needed in total. The project is being developed by the Guwahati Satellite City Development Authority, a wholly government owned special purpose vehicle, and acquisition talks with landowners are underway.
· Deccan Heraldsource
The Allahabad High Court held that a land acquisition award made under the old 1894 law, on a court's specific direction, cannot be challenged just because it did not use the newer 2013 Act's market value formula. The ruling relied on the Supreme Court's earlier decision on how such transitional awards should be treated.
· LiveLawsource
The Allahabad High Court held that once a District Magistrate decides that a land acquisition has lapsed under Section 24 of the 2013 land acquisition law, the State Government cannot stay or cancel that decision through an executive order. The court said the law gives the State no such power over a quasi-judicial decision.
· LiveLawsource
The Telangana High Court vacated a stay on land acquisition for the MGBS to Chandrayangutta Metro Corridor 4, allowing authorities to resume the acquisition process. The stay had been sought by property owners who alleged the acquisition was disproportionate on one side of the road and that compensation was inadequate.
· NewsMetersource
A parliamentary standing committee has recommended that digitally signed land records be given statutory legal validity, which would let a downloaded record stand on its own instead of needing a certified paper copy.
· Business Standardsource
The Maharashtra Cabinet has approved a full stamp duty exemption on land transfers between group companies or SPVs for renewable energy projects, along with a 25 percent concession on transfer charges for land bought for such projects. The Cabinet also amended Section 72 of the 2013 land acquisition law to revise interest on delayed compensation payments.
· Nagpur Todaysource
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu announced the state will finish its land re-survey by 2027 and issue Pattadar Passbooks with blockchain-based tamper protection and QR codes, alongside digitisation of old revenue records like 1-B, Adangal and Inam registers. So far 32.22 lakh passbooks have been issued and re-survey covering 9,365 more villages is planned over the next seven months.
· Telangana Todaysource
The Allahabad High Court ruled that a buyer who won a court order for a property's sale deed cannot enforce it after failing to pay the balance price for 20 years. The court cancelled a lower court order that had extended the buyer's time to pay, since the long delay was unexplained.
· LiveLawsource
The Allahabad High Court dismissed developer Aims Max Gardenia's appeal seeking condonation of a 721-day delay in filing its RERA appeal, and separately upheld the RERA order granting buyer Pratibha Gupta 24% interest for the builder's delay in handing over possession, imposing Rs 2.5 lakh in costs on the builder. The court found the builder's explanation for the multi-year delay in filing its own appeal unconvincing.
· Law Trendsource
The Ministry of Home Affairs has issued a standard operating procedure requiring renewable energy projects within 50 kilometers of India's international border to secure security clearance from the Home and Defence Ministries, with projects within 1 kilometer barred outright. Applications must now route through the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, which forwards the state government's land allotment details to MHA and Defence for clearance.
· Saur Energysource
The Allahabad High Court held that compensation awarded for land in a different village can still be used as a benchmark to fix compensation for the land being acquired, if the two locations are comparable. This applies even when the strict same-village, same-notification rule does not technically apply.
· LiveLawsource
