1) your title to property is not clear and marketable .

2)you have purchased property from original owner whose name is not on records

3) sulahanma or compromise entered into no records are available

4) you will have to search old court records and find out details about the sulahanma

5)contact a local lawyer to obtain copy of the records of 1960 if available in the bauripur court

6) if you sell the land to the builder on as is where is basis it would be his headache to take care of these issues .

7) as far as carrying on construction on your property is concerned check with local architect

1) west bengal muncipal building rules 2007

Control of development of parks, public open spaces, ponds, wetlands, canals, river and other water front

and brick fields:—

Rule 8 sub rule (3) No canal, pond, water body, wetland, rivulets, jhora, water source, natural spring, streams, drains, culverts shall be filled up:

Provided that after taking due consideration of the existing relevant Acts, the drainage, slope, slip, landslide, ecology,culture, environment, pisciculture, fire fighting or any other material consideration, and for reasons to be recorded in writing theBoard of Councillors with the prior approval of the State Government, may allow any canal, pond, rivulets, streams, rivers, Hood

plain area to be filled up.

2) i s your sale deed duly stamped and registered? inorder to confer clear title purchase of plot should have been by registered sale deed . in your case you have purchased property from seller whose name is not on records .

3) it is necessary to peruse court order of sulahanma entered into between parties . you should have obtained certified copy of order from court before purchase of property and it should have been enclosed to your sale deed

4) contact a local lawyer . you would get the records but may take some time as it is of 1960

Submit an application for conversion to the BL&LRO from Pond to Bastu,collect a no objection certificate from the local Municipality and file it also.

The reported Sulahnama is an hearsay information reportedly manipulated by the erstwhile owner in order to the dispose the property by concealing that it was partly pond land without any right to do so. This might have escaped the attention of the purchaser then who generally do not obtain legal opinion while purchasing he immovable asset to avoid the cost for legal opinion.

ow this can be a problem at a later stage too when some honest official of the authority decides to demolish even the constructed portion wha was constructed over the pond land. You may have to run from pillar to post to get whatever relief you ma get or to forego everything cursing your fate.

While you have time to straighten the records at this stage itself, do everything properly and legally and then think about developing of promoting your land into proposed apartments or whatever you have a plan about it.

Atleast now you consult a local lawyer and discuss the issues at length to sort out the problem.

1. Sulahnama i.e Compromise deed is a legal manner to amicably resolve a dispute. On the basis of this deed you can execute a document of transfer of property and then have the property mutated. It needs to be seen as to what is the dispute which was resolved through sulahnama. If the sulahnama was registered then a certified copy of it can be obtained from the office of registrar. The cost should be not more than a few hundred rupees. Unless and until the sulahnama is perused it cannot be said whether the title chain is clear.

2. The first thing which you should do is apply for mutation of the property in your favour. Irrespective of whether the chain of ownership is proper or not you are entitled to apply for mutation. What has been shown in the previous mutation need not be supplanted in the mutation which may be sanctioned in your favour.

1. Without converting the land fully you can not make constructions on it even though physically no pond is existing thereon.

2.Without showing the land as Bastu on Porcha no bank would grant loan on the property even though the building is made illegally.

3, Sulathnama is of little value in this scenario.

1. If there is no pond in the land now, file an application for conversion in to 'danga',

2.After that enter in to a well drafted development agreement with he developer and register it. Collect the copy of the sulahnama from the registration office if it was registered. Find out where the Sulahnama was submitted. Was it submitted before the Court or registration office? It hardly takes any amount to get one copy of the same if it really exists,

3. Ask the promoter on what account he wants the said huge amount? make the deal in such a way that the promoter will take care of arranging all such documents without any additional cost.

1. So, get the property mutated in your name first,

2. File an application for the said mutation immediately.

1. You shall have to file an application for the said conversion of character of land in the records. It will take time but copy of the said application will be required for the buyers of the yest to be constructed flats to submit before the Bank to avail housing loan,

2. Sulahnama, if submitted before he Court or registered before the Registrar, is a valid document to establish ownership of a property,

3. It is possible to get copy of a 55 years old document from the Registrar's office or from the Court.