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Bengaluru: The Department of Stamps and Registration has suspended five sub-registrars for misusing the Kaveri 2.0 software to register properties by violating the mandatory e-khata verification norms.
The action was initiated after preliminary inquiries revealed irregularities in the registration of properties.
The Inspector General of Registration (IGR) said in a statement that Kaveri 2.0 allows certain exemptions in the workflow, especially when property registrations are backed by court orders. However, at the Sarjapur sub-registrar office, this option was allegedly misused to register sale deeds even in cases where no court orders existed.
The fraudulent use of the 'court order-based registration' option enabled the registration of sale deeds without e-khatas, which are mandatory for property registration.
Following an inquiry, authorities placed Sarjapur Sub-Registrar Ravi Sankana Gouda under immediate suspension, the statement added.
Similar violations were identified at the Banaswadi, Varthur and Halasuru sub-registrar offices, where officials ignored the mandatory requirement to attach e-khata details from the e-Swathu software before registering sale deeds.
The department has suspended four sub-registrars pending departmental inquiry, while one of them has retired. The suspended officials are N Satish Kumar, Sridhar (in-charge sub-registrar), Girish Chandra and R Prabhavathi.
The suspension orders were issued on January 2.