Mumbai, Sept. 30 -- In a massive push to eliminate property fraud and wipe out proxy impersonation, the Maharashtra government has officially made biometric identity verification compulsory for all real estate transactions.
Under a decisive new policy announced by Revenue Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule, identity authentication is now a strict pre-requisite for 63 distinct types of property documents-including purchases, sales, gift deeds, mortgage deeds, and family partitions. Effective October 1, the landmark directive means that completing a property registration without digital identity verification is now entirely impossible.
Backed by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, this major administrative overhaul is engineered to permanently...