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anil_kumar_iim - 17 July, 2009 | Bangalore | governance | BBMP | Corruption | Citizen Reports | Registration | property

Hi All,

I have raised my voice against corruption to senior officials in registration and stamp duty officals. Request you all to put your comments with CC to them, your friends and media persons.

Regards

Anil

Is it mendatory to pay Bribe for registering property in Bangalore?

Friday, 17 July, 2009 9:22 PM
 
From:
 
To: aigrcomp@yahoo.co.in, igrcs@yahoo.co.in, cm@kar.nic.in
Dear Sir,
I got your email id from http://www.karigr.org/.
 I am planning to buy a flat in bangalore and builder told me that along with flat sale amount i also need to pay bribe to register the flat. Also he told me that if i am taking loan and want to register it, i need to pay bribe again inorder to regiter that mortagage.
 
I want to know :
1. Is is really necessary to pay bribe for registering the property even though i am paying full registration amount and stamp duty to government
2. Why i need to pay bribe 2nd time for registering the mortagage.
3. Also why builder in the city have made it mandatory for all customer to pay bribe.
4. Will bank give me loan for paying bribe also.As it is almost 5000-20,000 per flat.
 
Your site says that you have computarized the registration and stamp duty system, so why still people of india needs to pay bribe to you for registering their peoperty when they are already paying income tax.
I hope that you will reply to my queries and issue your advisory to your subordinates who are responsible for registration of property and stamp duty.
 
Regards
 
Anil

COMMENTS

A suggestion

Rithesh - 18 July, 2009 - 05:41

I hope "The Powers That Be" respond to your mail - but i will be shocked if the do that.

Anyways here is a suggestion - it always works.
1. First ensure that all your papers are right.
2. Tell the builder that you will handle the registration process all by yourself and collect the necessary documents from them.
3. Go visit the concerned office and go through the procedure.
4. My guess is if everything is fine, they might not trouble you and your work will get done.
5. If in case they do ask for a bribe - threaten them that you would approach the "Lok Ayuktha" - it is one of those magical words that will get any work done (thanks to our proactive and efficient Lok ayukthas).
6. Remember that they are not doing you a favour by getting your property registered - its your right and its their only work - dont hesitate to argue with them if need be.
7. If they still insist on the bribe, please go ahead a lodge a complaint with the Lok Ayuktha.

The question is, are you willing to take that extra trouble of getting all this work done by yourself. 

Lokayukta helpline - 155320

silkboard - 18 July, 2009 - 08:23

If you don't hear from anyone you have tried to reach, here is the Lokayukta helpline

Call 155320 from any BSNL phone, and lodge your complaint. Just pulled the number out from an old note. Just now tried it as well. Saturday afternoon, and someone was there in LA's office to take the call.

Let us know how it went.

Residents use RTI to beat corruption

Rithesh - 28 July, 2009 - 09:34

RTI is another way you could beat corruption - check this article from Bangalore mirror 

 A group of residents at Sun City near the Sarjapur-Outer Ring Road junction refuse to grease official palms to obtain khata, pay property tax and the like. They used RTI to find out the status of their applications, forcing the officials to act. It’s a model for the rest of Bangalore

More here.

 

 

the biggest of them all

murali772 - 1 November, 2010 - 15:22

http://praja.in/en/blog/murali772/2010/07/12/under-valuation-extortion-racket

This 'undervaluation' racket has been identified as the biggest affecting Karnataka citizens. Perhaps, the civil society needs to recognise the players formally.

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