Pune: Affidavit, Zone Certificate Now Mandatory for Regularising Fragmented Land Transactions

Pune, 4th November 2025: The Registration and Stamps Department has made it mandatory to submit an affidavit while registering land deals that were earlier executed in violation of the repealed Fragmentation Act.

Additionally, landowners in rural areas outside municipal corporation limits will now have to obtain a zone certificate to complete such registrations, officials said.

Following the state government’s decision to scrap the Fragmentation Act within municipal corporation and PMRDA jurisdictions, the department has issued a new Standard Operating Procedure (SOP).

As per the directions of Deputy Inspector General of Registration Udayraj Chavan, buyers and sellers must submit an affidavit confirming that the land:
* has not been transferred earlier in violation of rules
• does not exceed the total permissible holding
• is being regularised only because the earlier division was illegal
• is not government-owned or encroached land

For properties located in partially residential or agricultural zones outside city limits, both an affidavit and a zone certificate are compulsory. However, the zone certificate will not be required for plots located entirely within residential zones.

The department also clarified that registration of such documents does not validate any existing construction on the land. All developments must comply with building and development regulations of the local planning authority and the state government.