India, Nov. 9 -- Even as deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar on Friday announced that his son Parth had initiated the process to cancel the sale agreement of the controversial Mundhwa land in Pune, Amadea Enterprises LLP will now have to pay Rs.42 crore in stamp duty and a penalty to execute the cancellation deed.

In a letter issued on Friday evening, officiating joint sub-registrar P Fulaware instructed Amadea co-partner Digvijay Patil, who had signed the sale agreement, to pay the "full stamp duty" before the cancellation deed could be registered. The letter said the firm has to also pay the previous stamp duty amount.

The Rs.42 crore, a revenue official explained, constitutes the original Rs.21 crore in stamp duty that had been waived, ...