Saya & Associates
Diligence is cheaper than possession.
Property litigation in Delhi is mostly the consequence of a transaction nobody checked. The chain had a break in it, the seller was one of four co-owners, the construction was unauthorised, or the agreement was signed and the sale deed never executed. A title search before the money moves prevents most of it.
Buying it, holding it, and the fights over both.
Title, sale & registration
Title investigation and encumbrance searches, agreements to sell and sale deeds, gift and relinquishment deeds, registration and mutation — with a written report on what is clean and what is not.
Possession & title disputes
Suits for possession, declaration and injunction, specific performance of an agreement to sell, mesne profits, and action against encroachment and illegal occupation.
Partition & inheritance
Partition suits and settlements between co-owners and heirs, ancestral and coparcenary property, and the property side of wills and succession.
Tenancy & eviction
Eviction under the Delhi Rent Control Act and by civil suit, recovery of arrears, and the defence of tenants against eviction and enhancement.
Land acquisition & revenue
Compensation claims and references under the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013, and mutation and revenue-record disputes.
RERA & demolition
Complaints before the Real Estate Regulatory Authority for delayed possession, refund and interest, and challenges to demolition and sealing action.
Read the chain, not the last deed.
A registered sale deed proves a transaction happened. It does not prove the seller owned what they sold. Title in Delhi is established by the chain behind the deed — the allotment, the conversion, the mutation, the succession — and by whether every person with an interest actually signed. Establishing that is a defined exercise with a written outcome, done before payment.
For owners living abroad the practical problem is presence: registration, possession, tenants and litigation all need someone on the ground. A properly drawn power of attorney, and someone answerable for the use of it, solves more of that than any amount of correspondence.
Establish the title, then document the deal.
Investigate
The chain of title, the encumbrances, the approvals and any pending litigation — reported in writing, in terms a buyer can act on.
Document
The agreement and the deed drafted to the facts found, with the payment, possession and default terms that make the transaction enforceable.
Enforce
Where a transaction has already gone wrong — possession, specific performance, RERA, eviction or partition, as the facts require.