The object and purpose of the Registration Act, 1908
("the Act") amongst other things, is to
provide a method of public registration of documents so as to give
information to people regarding legal rights and obligations
arising or affecting a particular property, and to perpetuate
documents which may afterwards be of legal importance, and to
prevent fraud1. The Act was enacted with the intention
of providing orderliness, discipline and public notice in regard to
transactions relating to immovable property and protection from
forgery of documents of transfer2. To achieve this
objective, the Act requires compulsory registration of certain
types of documents and provides consequences for non-registration
of such documents. Given that registration of a document gives a
document a characteristic of inviolability, each State may also
have different rules with regard to registration, and there may be
certain instances especially with regard to the registration of a
sale
