On any given day, you can visit the registrar office any where in Chennai and ask the buying party how much bribe has he paid.

In one of the instances, the registrar was not there and he instructed a lady in velachery registration office to collect the bribe on his behalf.

first the buying party paid Rs 3500, only to get a call again say that it was not enough. 2 days later, the buyer again went to the registration office and paid rs 2500 separetly.

he spend nearly 6k as bribes. there is formailty when u buy second sale flat. the guys from registration office come and visit the flat siting inspection reason. for that u have to pay for auto and need to pay rs 300.

Your paper wont move from registration office to Bank (Incase of Loan) or to you (Incase of cash purchase), if you wont give them money.

If you ask me, why pay them, i have no reason. it is countless other things where our good old govt employees make money for the job they get paid.