Looking at a parcel of agricultural land outside Warangal town, seller is an old family and everything is verbal so far — 'we've had it for generations'. What documents should I be asking to see and cross-check before I take this seriously?
Ask for the pattadar passbook and the ROR-1B for that survey number, pull them yourself on Bhu Bharati rather than trusting a photocopy from the family. Then the EC for a good stretch of years — registration.telangana.gov.in, Online Services, Encumbrance Search, search by district/mandal/village and survey number if you don't have a document number. Cross-check the name on the passbook matches the name on the EC's last transaction and that there's no mortgage sitting on it. 'Generations' is exactly the situation where you also want the mother deed and link documents so you can trace how it actually came to them — inheritance without a proper partition deed is a common mess in agri land.
And if there are multiple legal heirs who haven't formally divided it?
Then every one of them needs to be a party to the sale, or you need to see a registered partition deed first. Don't buy from just the one sibling who's talking to you.
Also worth asking if the land has any tenant farmer working it currently. Recorded tenancy rights can complicate possession even after you buy.
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