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Haryana's revenue department now requires an authorized HSVP official to be physically present at the tehsil office when a sale deed is executed for a plot bought through an HSVP e-auction. Previously a signed authorization letter from HSVP was enough and no HSVP representative needed to attend in person.
· Constro Facilitatorsource
Land acquisition has formally begun for Indian Oil Corporation's Rs 61,077 crore petrochemical complex at Paradip, nearly a year after the agreement was signed with the Odisha government. The project is IOC's largest single location investment and is intended to make Paradip one of India's primary petrochemical manufacturing hubs.
· Webnewswiresource
Tamil Nadu will launch 'Presence-less Registration' on August 17, 2026 as part of its STAR 3.0 system, letting flat and plot promoters, bankers and financial institutions complete property registration online without visiting a Sub-Registrar office, at least in this first phase. The eventual goal is broader online registration, but the initial rollout is limited to these institutional stakeholders.
· The Hindusource
Document writers in Andhra Pradesh called off their strike after the state's Registration and Stamps Department clarified that new Registration Seva Kendras will not replace their work. Registration services across the state continued without interruption during the protest.
· Deccan Chroniclesource
The Kerala High Court held that property bought in the joint names of a husband and wife cannot be claimed by the husband alone just because he paid the full price, unless there is evidence the property was held in trust or bought benami in the wife's name. The Division Bench said joint ownership on the sale deed reflects the real intention of both spouses.
· LiveLawsource
The Supreme Court has come down heavily on Parsvnath Developers for its continued failure to comply with orders passed by the Haryana Real Estate Regulatory Authority, warning that non compliance within a week could lead to imprisonment. The order signals the Supreme Court's willingness to enforce state RERA directions against a defaulting promoter through contempt style consequences.
· Bar and Benchsource
The Andhra Pradesh High Court held that a partition suit can be amended to correct the plaintiff's name and the extent of the property even after the trial has started, as long as the nature of the suit does not change. The court allowed the amendment because it did not prejudice the other side.
· LiveLawsource
Tamil Nadu's Inspector General of Registration has extended a 2012 stamp duty and registration fee exemption, originally given to Tangedco for land gifted for electricity substations, to its two successor companies formed after the 2024 split. The exemption now names Tamil Nadu Power Distribution Corporation Limited and Tamil Nadu Power Generation Corporation Limited directly.
· DT Nextsource
The Supreme Court held that an agreement to sell containing a clause promising to refund the buyer's money if the deal falls through does not, by itself, stop the buyer from later suing for specific performance. A bench of Justice K.V. Viswanathan and Justice Alok Aradhe ruled that such a clause is not a bar to enforcing the agreement in court.
· LiveLawsource
Telugu film actor and producer Bandla Ganesh Babu has approached the Supreme Court to challenge a bank's SARFAESI auction of one of his mortgaged properties. His petition raises the question of how the SARFAESI Act, 2002 and the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 should interact when a secured asset is contested.
· LiveLawsource
Karnataka's RERA has ordered a Bengaluru developer to restore power supply, complete promised amenities, and transfer the land Khata, corpus fund and maintenance accounts to the residents' association within 90 days, ruling that possession alone does not end a promoter's obligations. The order, dated June 3, 2026, also rejected the builder's argument that RERA did not apply because the occupancy certificate predated the Act.
· Business Standardsource
Andhra Pradesh's Chief Minister distributed new pattadar passbooks to farmers in Banaganapalle, Nandyal district, as part of the state's Mee Bhoomi-Mee Hakku land resurvey programme, with roughly 29 lakh passbooks issued statewide so far. The new passbooks carry the state emblem and are given only in villages where the land resurvey has been completed.
· News Today Online 24source
The Court applied the rule that possession is good against the whole world except the person with a better right, and let a plaintiff tracing title from the original allottee recover the property.
· LiveLawsource
The draft would apply the same stressed-asset recovery and resolution discipline to banks and NBFCs alike, removing the current split in how enforcement is run depending on who holds the security.
· Vinod Kothari Consultantssource
In Vayyaeti Srinivasarao v. Gaineedi Jagajyothi (2026 INSC 59) the Court held that under the AP amendment to the Stamp Act an agreement to sell creates no right or title in immovable property and is not a conveyance unless possession passes under it.
· Verdictumsource
