Dear Sir,
I and my relatives purchased a number of adjacent plots(part of a large estate) from a certain seller.The sale deeds were legally registered in the tehsil court and the mutation was also completed. At a later date the said seller, mortaged the entire estate with a bank for a loan and has been unable to repay the EMIs. The bank has issued notices to us informing us of their intention to auction the properties. My query is , Is the bank justified in serving us the notices when the plots are already registered and mutated in our names as per the land records. The seller has obivously committed a fraud by mortgaging the entire property to the bank, when he had already sold it to us at an earlier date. Should the bank not have checked the details of the property before accepting it as collateral? What should be our further course of action.
Thanks in advance