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**bombaygirl** · 11-11-2006, 05:56 PM

It seems Maharashtra is outdated in everything. Including giving information. A friend has unsucessfully been trying to obtain copies of land records and papers that belonged to his late grandfather. The grandfather died when my friend was a minor and his father did nothing to transfer the papers to his name.

Now the problem is that those taluka (Shirur) and the village (Kauthe) in Pune jurisdiction officials are refusing to hand over those papers giving various excuses. Whenever my friend goes there, they do a disappearing act and despite the collector Mr. Deshmukh's intervention they are not shelling out those papers.

Does the Maharashtra government want to grab the land? or what is it? How should we go about getting those original papers, so that my friend can legally transfer it in his name.

PLEASE HELP!

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**maneesh** · 11-11-2006, 06:10 PM

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The person who wants to obtain the land record can make a application under RTI giving specific details about the land and asking about who is the owner of the land in the record and the previous owners.
An application under RTI has to be answered within 30 days.

Do let us know about the progress.

**jeevan** · 11-12-2006, 11:52 AM

I think you must first get info regarding who is the CPIO for the above information. Once that information is there, it is for sure that they cannot refuse the information.

If in case they claim that the record is bulky, or old you can also ask for inspecting the record which will cost you Rs 5/- after 1st free hour.

I am sure, with all this techniques, you are sure to get the info. The only condition is you must exactly know what you want with land record.

**brijeshbhatt** · 11-16-2006, 09:46 PM

Tell you friend to apply certified copies of his land records. If he had already applied then he can check the status of his application using RTI.
After getting certified copies of his land records he can initiate proceeding for transfering land in his name.

**bombaygirl** · 11-20-2006, 06:52 PM

Actually my friend has got part of the papers and they have even been approved by the collectors and others. He had applied for the transfer into his name and they are simply not doing this. He needs to also apply for the remaining land record papers that are originally dated pre-independence.

How to get those thesildar and other officials to take those papers out is a big question, since all legal and moral routes have been applied. I personally feel some solid contact is needed to push this through.

Dhara