Property Dispute / Encroachment Notice

When someone encroaches on your land, blocks your access, or builds without right, a formal notice is the first serious step. Generate a clear notice for ₹299, preview it free, and send it properly.

Your ₹299 kit includes:

  • ✓ Formal encroachment notice drafted from your facts
  • ✓ Clear demand: remove, stop construction, restore access
  • ✓ How to serve: Registered Post, Speed Post, email, WhatsApp
  • ✓ Evidence-pack checklist: title, survey, photos, boundary
  • ✓ Proof-of-service checklist
  • ✓ If-ignored next-steps playbook

Instant download · One-time fee · No subscription. Stamp paper is not required for a legal notice.

Do not retaliate. Never demolish, remove, or damage the encroachment yourself, and do not confront the other party physically — self-help like this destroys your case and can turn you into the accused. Let the notice and the courts do the work.

Not ready to send anything yet? Read the free guide first — which documents to pull (patta, FMB sketch, EC), what to photograph, and the seven moves that destroy your own case. No signup, nothing to buy on that page.

A formal legal notice in your own name — the recognised first step, and the one that resolves most disputes before they ever reach a lawyer or a court. Sent by Registered Post A.D. with proof of delivery.

Agreements.co.in is a document service, not a law firm — we don't give legal advice or guarantee outcomes. You send the notice in your own name and confirm every detail before you pay.

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The law this document is drafted against — sources last read 25 August 2026

We last opened the official published source for each provision below on 25 August 2026 and confirmed the text we cite is still there. That is a check of the source, not advice about your situation.

  • A summary suit to get possession back — six months from the day you were dispossessedSection 6, Specific Relief Act, 1963 — §6(1): a person dispossessed without his consent of immovable property otherwise than in due course of law may by suit recover possession, notwithstanding any other title that may be set up in such suit; §6(2)(a): no suit after the expiry of six months from the date of dispossession; §6(2)(b): not against the Government; §6(3): no appeal and no review from any order or decree in such a suit; §6(4): the right to sue on title is preservedRead the source — opened 25 August 2026
  • Compensation for the trespass itself — three years from the date of the trespassLimitation Act, 1963 — Schedule, Article 87 (compensation for trespass upon immovable property): three years from the date of the trespass; Article 85 (compensation for obstructing a way or a water-course): three years from the date of the obstruction; read with Section 22 (in the case of a continuing tort a fresh period of limitation begins to run at every moment of the time during which the tort continues)Read the source — opened 25 August 2026
  • Recovering the land itself — twelve years, counted from when their possession became adverse to youLimitation Act, 1963 — Schedule, Article 65 (suit for possession of immovable property or any interest therein based on title): twelve years from when the possession of the defendant becomes adverse to the plaintiff; Article 64 (possession based on previous possession and not on title): twelve years from the date of dispossession; read with Section 27 — at the determination of the period limited for instituting a suit for possession of any property, the right to such property is extinguishedRead the source — opened 25 August 2026
You (the Sender)
The owner or lawful occupant of the affected property.
The Recipient
Who is encroaching or interfering, and where the notice will be delivered.

Where the notice will be posted — a deliverable postal address.

The property and the encroachment
Describe your property, the interference, and what must be done now.

Optional.

Optional.

How long they get to respond or comply. 15 days is customary.

Optional. Mention complaints, calls, or messages already sent.

Optional but worth filling. The town or city where the land or building is. Courts there can hear a property case. Left blank, the notice says nothing about it.

Optional — one clause, in your own words.

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Evidence & Supporting Documents

Add anything that supports your claim — an invoice, a WhatsApp chat, a payment screenshot, even a handwritten notebook. This is optional, but a notice backed by proof carries far more weight.

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You have not added any evidence yet. You can still send the notice — but the items below are what a lawyer asks for first, and gathering them now is far easier than later.

What to gather

  • Your property papers and the survey record — the sale deed or patta, and the sketch showing where the boundary runsMost importantTwo questions decide an encroachment: is the land yours, and where exactly does it end. Your deed, patta or khata answers the first; the survey sketch with its measurements answers the second, and that is the one actually in dispute. An encumbrance certificate alongside them shows the title is clear.If you do not have the survey sketch, it can be applied for from the taluk or revenue office, and you can ask the surveyor to come and mark the boundary on the ground. That measurement is the single most useful thing you can obtain before this goes further — do not wait for a court to order it.
  • Dated photographs or video of the encroachment — and any older pictures of the same spot before itMost importantYou are asking for something to be taken down, so the first thing anyone needs to see is what is there. A picture from before it appeared is worth far more than one from today, because together they show it was not always so — which is what an urgent order to stop the work rests on.Photograph it today anyway, from a fixed point you can return to, and keep doing it at intervals — a set showing the encroachment growing is stronger than any single image. Old family photographs, an earlier property listing, and satellite imagery of the plot are all worth digging out for the before.
  • Anything showing you objected — your messages, letters or complaints, and whatever they said backThis is the entry people skip and later wish they had. If the other side ever claims the land became theirs by long possession, the answer is that their possession was never unopposed — and a dated objection is what proves it. A reply admitting they built over the line is better still.Even one dated WhatsApp message asking them to stop is worth adding, and screenshots are fine. If every objection was face to face, write down now what you said and when, and understand that the notice you are about to send becomes the first properly recorded one — keep the posting receipt with your title papers.

This is a checklist of what a lawyer usually asks for first — not a judgement about your case, and never a reason you cannot send the notice. We go by how you describe each item; nobody opens your files to check them, so tick things off honestly — the list is only useful if it is true. You can add more evidence at any time, and only you and our team can see what you upload.

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Evidence & Supporting Documents — FAQ
Most people hesitate simply because they don't know what documents are needed. Here are the answers.