According to an official circular issued by Inspector General of Registration J Kumaragurubaran, the vendors would be given login ID and password to access the department’s website for entering sales and stock details, and unique serial numbers. 

“A few persons are blocking the tokens by providing fake names and details to use the same by modifying the particulars afterwards. To curtail these practices, the online portal needs to be enhanced,” the circular said.

The Inspector General has also directed the sub-registrars to restrain from maintaining manual registries on the sales and stocks of non-judicial stamp papers, as the same has been made online.

Clarifying the confusions pertaining serial numbers of the stamp papers, Kumaragurubaran in his circular directed the vendors not to scribble random serial numbers and instead use the unique serial numbers provided by the Reserve Bank of India. “All the particulars of the buyers of the stamp papers should be filled in the respective columns to generate tokens,” the circular added.

Meanwhile, it is learnt that the move has come after several users complained of the malpractice. In most of the sub-registrar offices, only 40 per cent of the issued tokens were produced for the registration, while the rest tokens are blocked for ‘sales’ later, according to a source in the department.

In another move to curtail the malpractices using the tokens, sub-registrar offices in the State would issue not more than 100 tokens each a day. “The new restriction will come into effect from Saturday,” Inspector General of Registration J Kumaragurubaran told DT Next. He added that one-time password (OTP) validity time would be enhanced to 10 minutes from 5 minutes, and would be increased further to 30 minutes if the user chooses the option to resend it.