Avoid property the civic physique hasn’t sanctioned

A constructing was constructed in 2013. There isn’t any sanction plan for one specific flooring already constructed in the identical 12 months. This unsanctioned flooring, nonetheless, has a registered sale deed. It’s a freehold property. Can the municipality break the ground, or can I take permission or an no-objection certificates from the municipality? This one-room studio residence is the one unsanctioned flat on the bottom flooring of my constructing of three flooring. What may be the attainable resolution to this keep away from any issues in future?

—Name withheld on request

First, with the restricted details supplied by you, we don’t perceive in case you are the proprietor of such property otherwise you intend to buy the property. Assuming you propose to buy the identical, it’s best to keep away from shopping for the one-room studio residence, which is unsanctioned by the municipal company and, thus, illegally constructed, to keep away from problems in future. We perceive that though it might be purchased and bought at comparatively decrease than the prevailing market charges, there’s a excessive threat ingredient to it because the residence could also be demolished at any time by the municipal company, both suo motu, or if any particular person recordsdata a criticism with the municipal company or courtroom.

In the occasion you’re eager on buying the property, you could attempt to file an software within the municipal company to have the ground/ property regularized from the company which can be granted to you, supplied that there are not any different violations to it, corresponding to FSI, or flooring house index, violation, and many others., and the identical are topic to cost of expenses, penalties as could also be levied by the suitable authorities.

Aradhana Bhansali is a companion, Rajani Associates.

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