Saurabh Nahta & Associates Advocates · Ahmedabad

Ambawadi, Ahmedabad · 9 years at the bar

Before the money moves,
the title has to be clean.

A property practice built on the document most people never read: the title search report. Real estate litigation, title clearance, RERA compliance and civil matters, conducted before the courts and authorities at Ahmedabad.

Call 98243 15980 See practice areas
Practising since
2017
Enrolment
Bar Council of Gujarat
Chamber
22, Navkar Bungalow
Chain of title Specimen
  1. 1974Original sale deedSub-Registrar, Ahmedabad
  2. 1989Devolution by successionMutation entry, revenue record
  3. 2003Partition deed among heirsRegistered · stamp duty paid
  4. 2018Release of mortgageCharge satisfied · CERSAI
  5. TodayPresent holder in possessionNo pending litigation traced
Marketable Title clear

Illustration of how a search report is assembled. Every matter is examined on its own record.

Areas of practice

Property, and the disputes that grow out of it.

The work below is what the chamber handles regularly. Where a matter falls outside it, you will be told so at the first meeting.

i

Title clearance & search reports

Tracing ownership through registered instruments, revenue records and encumbrance searches to establish whether a title is marketable — the report banks and buyers rely on before funds are released.

Search reportEncumbranceDue diligence
ii

Real estate litigation

Suits concerning ownership, possession, partition, specific performance of agreements to sell, and injunctions, conducted before the civil courts at Ahmedabad and in appeal.

PossessionPartitionSpecific performance
iii

RERA compliance

Project registration and continuing compliance under the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act and the Gujarat rules, along with allottee and promoter proceedings before the Authority.

RegistrationAgreement for saleGujRERA
iv

Conveyancing & documentation

Drafting and vetting of sale deeds, development agreements, leases, gift and release deeds, powers of attorney, with attention to stamp duty and registration requirements in Gujarat.

DraftingStamp dutyRegistration
v

Civil & commercial matters

Recovery suits, contractual disputes, succession and testamentary matters, and civil appeals and revisions arising from them.

RecoveryContractSuccession
vi

Banking & secured lending

Title opinions for lenders, creation and satisfaction of security over immovable property, and proceedings arising from secured debts.

Title opinionMortgageEnforcement

How a title search is conducted

Five steps, in this order.

A search is only as good as the earliest document it reaches. The sequence matters, because each step tells you what to look for in the next.

Step 01

Collect the parent documents

The present deed, and every instrument behind it that the holder can produce.

Step 02

Search the register

Index II at the Sub-Registrar's office, matched against revenue and city survey records.

Step 03

Trace the devolution

Every transfer — sale, succession, partition, gift — reconciled into an unbroken chain.

Step 04

Test for encumbrance

Mortgages, charges, attachments, pending suits and statutory dues traced and verified as discharged.

Step 05

Report the findings

A written opinion stating whether the title is marketable, and precisely what qualifies it if it is not.

The chamber

Saurabh Nahta

An advocate practising at Ahmedabad since 2017, with a practice centred on immovable property — its title, its transfer, and the disputes that follow both.

The chamber is a small one, and deliberately so. Property matters turn on documents that are decades old, often incomplete, and frequently contradictory. Reading them properly takes time that a large caseload does not allow. Every file is handled personally.

Work comes from property owners and buyers, developers, lenders and families dividing inherited land. What they have in common is a document that has to be right before anything else can happen.

  • EnrolmentBar Council of Gujarat
  • PractisingSince 2017 — 9 years at the bar
  • Appears beforeCity Civil & Sessions Court, Ahmedabad · Gujarat RERA · Registering authorities
  • LanguagesGujarati · Hindi · English
The Gujarat High Court building at Ahmedabad
The Gujarat High Court, Ahmedabad.
Photograph by Maulik Kansara, resized · CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

Chamber & contact

Ambawadi, by the Shreyas crossing.

Visits are by prior appointment. Please call or write before coming, and bring whatever documents you already hold.

Near Shreyas Railway Crossing

Opposite Hero Showroom

Neena Raw House lane, off Ambawadi

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Enquiries

Bring the documents you have.

Even an incomplete set is a starting point. A first conversation establishes what the record shows, what is missing, and whether the matter is one this chamber should take.

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