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2026 Supreme(Online)(Mad) 36175

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS
D.BHARATHA CHAKRAVARTHY, J
ViVkananthn – Appellant
Versus
The Inspector of General of Registration – Respondent


Advocates:
For the Appellants/Petitioners: Mr.P.Venkatesan
For the Respondents: Mr.F.Deepak Special Government Pleader

Table of Content
1. refusal of registration due to missing original prior document. (Para 2)
2. final decree confers title, superseding prior document. (Para 3)
3. mandatory production of original under section 34c. (Para 4)
4. quash refusal; permit registration without original. (Para 5 , 6 , 7)

ORDER

This writ petition is filed challenging the impugned refusal check slip dated 18.03.2026.

2.By the said order, the sale deed presented by the petitioner was refused to be registered on the ground that when the petitioner is claiming title through the earlier document bearing Registration No.2658 of 1981 and when the original of the same is not produced before the registering authority, the document could not be registered, as per Section 34C of the Registration Act, 1998. Therefore, the document was refused to be registered.

3.The learned counsel for the petitioner would submit that it is true that by the document No.2658 of 1981 dated 14.09.1981, the property was originally purchased by one Baluchamy and his two brothers. Subsequently, among the co-sharers, original the document was in the custody of one Ranjitham and others and they filed a suit in O.S.No.569 of 2007, before the Addition

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