Often buyers ignore the link documents which are in a way utmost important to know the legal implications associated with the property. Link Documents also called as Pahanis, a jargon much heard in real-estate sector constitute all the sale deed agreements exchanged between the previous property holders. Pahanis are documents issued by revenue dept for a particular land or survey numbers at regular intervals which contain the information of buyer seller within that period.

These pahanis stretch way  back from 1954.That was the year when AP revenue dept came into existence. Land records were maintained from that time till date. So always ask for link documents to make sure the property is legal hassle free.

The first picture is a pahani issued by government on 2003 giving away the names of the property holders at that time in 12th column.

The second picture is pahani issued in 1954 ,the first of its kind  tells the names of the ppl holding the property

The important thing to note here is that the respective sale deeds of all transactions taken place on the property and the pahanis issued by government should match to confirm that the property has clear title.