ancillary document

General / Special Power of Attorney (GPA / SPA)

Also called: GPA, SPA, Attorney appointment

Registered authorisation for an attorney to act on behalf of a principal — does NOT transfer property by itself.

What it is

A GPA / SPA empowers an attorney to deal with property on the principal's behalf — useful when the owner is an NRI, ill, or unavailable. The Suraj Lamp ruling clarified that a GPA is not a transfer instrument; only a registered sale deed transfers property.

Who issues it

Executed by the principal; registered at the SRO.

Where to obtain

Original held by the principal / attorney; SRO copy.

Validity

Until revoked, expired, or principal's death (depending on terms).

What to check

Principal-attorney relationship
Scope of authority (sale / management / litigation)
Whether revocable or irrevocable
Expiry date if any
Whether it's been used to execute a registered sale deed (legitimate use) or as a substitute for one (Suraj Lamp violation)

Common red flags on a General / Special Power of Attorney (GPA / SPA)

Property 'transferred' via GPA without a follow-up registered sale deed
Chain of GPAs (GPA-on-GPA) without a registered transfer in the buyer's name
GPA used post-principal's death without specific clauses

How PropertyRisk handles General / Special Power of Attorney (GPA / SPA)

PropertyRisk extracts every field from your uploaded General / Special Power of Attorney (GPA / SPA) using multilingual OCR (English, Kannada, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu) and a Karnataka-specific schema for this document type. Each finding cites the exact page and clause it came from in the original document.

On every case where this document is uploaded, PropertyRisk reconciles its contents against the rest of the document chain — sale deeds, RTC, mutation extracts, khata — and against live government portal records to surface inconsistencies a non-expert would miss.

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