KARACHI, June 13: Most of sub-registrars are executing lease or sale deeds without ensuring whether the parties concerned have obtained the required NOC from Karachi Building Control Authority.

Following the order of Sindh High Court, the Sindh Board of Revenue had issued a notification to all sub-registrars asking them not to execute any sale or lease deed (except agricultural land) without ensuring that the parties concerned had obtained NOC from the KBCA.

The notification, issued by the Board of Revenue, stated that the SHC while hearing C.P. Nos. 310/2004 and 311/2004 had directed that all sub-registrars be ordered not to execute any sale deed or lease (except for agricultural land) without the required NOC from KBCA.

However, sources said that sub-registrars deputed in cantonment areas were executing lease, sale deed, mutation, power of attorney and gift deeds without ensuring whether the people seeking such documents had obtained the NOC from the KBCA that had been made mandatory in the wake of the BOR's circular.

Similarly, the sub-registrars, looking after works of the properties falling under city government's jurisdiction, were dealing with the gift deeds, power of attorney, transfer and mutation cases without seeing whether the persons seeking such documents had obtained the NOC from the KBCA.

A senior official in the KBCA said that the circular, issued by the Board of Revenue on the directives of SHC, if implemented in letter and spirit would help in bringing a halt to the menace of possessing lease of a single property by two or three persons.

For the very purpose, the KBCA has designed an NOC form bearing details of plot and property as well as carrying the photograph of the owner. The form is available for Rs100 at the KBCA office.

Any applicant seeking the NOC for lease, sub-lease, power of attorney and sale deed can get the same in at least three days for which he will have to pay Rs200. To get NOC in 24 hours, those having a property up to 200sq-yards or a 600sq-feet flat would have to pay Rs500.

Similarly, those having property above 200sq-yards or flat measuring more than 600sq-feet can get the NOC within 24 hours on payment of Rs1,000. However, the people who had bought flats in buildings which had been raised in violation of approved plans will no be issued NOC required for getting lease, sale deed, mutation or power of attorney.

The owners of such flats argue that why they should be penalized for irregularities that had not been committed by them. Besides, they said that it was the duty of KBCA officials to check such illegal construction.