Cops for digitisation of property records to check fraud cases

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police has written to the government for digitisation of all registered properties in the capital to check rising cases of fraud.

According to Delhi police statistics, the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) is probing around 19 cases of multiple mortgage of property and 30 cases of fake sale deeds.

The police are trying to push for a software to enable the owner to automatically receive an email or SMS alert whenever any transaction or deal is attempted on his property, knowingly or without his knowledge.

In an advisory to the principal secretary (home) of the Delhi government, additional CP (EOW), Arun Kampani suggested maintaining a database of properties whereby all transactions are registered with the sub-registrars.

“The date should be available on the website of the sub-registrar concerned with read-only access to the public,” the letter said.

Police have written to the RBI to ask banks to provide web access to the central registry database (which keeps the record of mortgaged properties) to the sub-registrar’s office.