Buyer or Seller Need Not Be Present Together for Sale Deed Registration in Uttar Pradesh; Appeal Against Specific Performance Decree Dismissed: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that under the Registration Act, 1908 as applicable in Uttar Pradesh, the physical presence of both the buyer and the seller is not mandatory at the time of execution and registration of a sale deed. The Court clarified that the Uttar Pradesh amendment to Section 32A of the Registration Act, 1908 differs from the Central law and does not require photographs and fingerprints of…