What is Conveyance Document?
A leading newspaper has carried a story on July 13, 2012 headlined
‘Lawyers should make conveyance documents.’ I asked two friends if they knew
meaning of ‘conveyance document.’ They did not, but thought it could be related
to transportation. It is not.
The story explains the meaning slightly only in the third paragraph as legal
documents ‘like sale deeds, mortgage deeds etc.’
How if it explains in the beginning of the intro
itself, something as:
The practise of touts or agents preparing property
related legal documents is illegal. The touts or agents should not be allowed
to prepare such documents, known as conveyance documents. Bar Council of
Maharashtra and Goa vice-chairman Ashish Deshmukh made this clear here today.
Compare this with the original intro which was as
follows:
The practise of touts or agents preparing conveyance
documents is illegal and it should be stopped with immediate effect, said
Ashish Deshmukh, vice-chairman of the Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa. The
council will request the state government to curb this practice and authorise
only lawyers to formally draw up conveyance documents, he added.
The subsequent two paragraphs read:
Deshmukh, who paid a visit to the district and sessions
court here on Wednesday, said the council has taken this initiative to prevent
people from getting cheated, because in a large number of cases the documents
are challenged in the courts for various reasons. The council will hand over a
memorandum in this regard to deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar at the state
lawyers' conference here on July 14, he added.
Quoting a Supreme Court ruling, Deshmukh said
that if a search report prepared by a lawyer is found to be faulty then he/she
is liable for action. However, in the case of private persons preparing legal
documents, like sale deeds, mortgage deeds, etc, there is no mechanism to keep
a tab on their activities. Also, they do not issue any certificate about the
genuineness of the document or its content.
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