Saturday, March 16, 2013

Online Notarized Instruments Register



Need for Online Notarized Instruments Register.

Sir,

I am a non Resident Indian, aged 35.  My father passed away  5 years before and my younger brother passed away recently. To finish the formalities after their death and also for various other purposes, I had to visit many notaries. During these visits, I have found that.

  1. Notaries are not properly verifying the identity of the person signing the documents.
  2. Some notaries are allowing to documents to be taken to the signatories to get it signed and later return to the notary public to get it attested. In this case there is no mechanism to identify if the signature is forged. In this case the, signatories are not signing in the notary register, but the notary is forging the signature on the register or is not entered in the register.
  3. A person receiving the notarized instrument cannot easily verify if it was properly attested by the notary or is forged.
  4. A citizen cannot find out if someone has forged his signature or created any forged instrument on his name.

Due to these deficiencies, the a lot of innocent  people are cheated and  their property and money are taken over by others without even knowing such property or bank deposit existed to which they are a legal heir.



To address these deficiencies, I kindly request you to setup an Online Notarized Instruments Register
The notary should register the notarized document online and record the autogenerated registration number on the document.  Which can be used by  citizens or any Authority to search for any valid notarized instruments of him or documents having his attested signature. The register need not contain a copy of the instrument. Just the title, date of signing and name of the signatory and place is required.  Users can be easily identified by Name, Voters Id Card No or Adhaar Number.

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