Chandigarh, March 29 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has directed the sub-registrar, Chandigarh administration, to accept the conveyance deed of a city resident and take a final decision on it.

"..the sub-registrar does not have the authority to outrightly reject the documents. Instead, they are duty-bound to either register the document or reject it with a valid reason through a speaking order," the bench of justice Kuldeep Tiwari observed while dealing with a plea from a city resident on the issue of revised collector rates notification.

The city administration on March 25 had notified revised collector rates for the city with effect from April 1, as per which fee for registration of property would be up three times higher. Howev...