law: Registration Act, 1908
  35. Procedure on admission and denial of execution
  
  respectively
  (1)(a) If all the persons executing the document appear
  
  personally before the registering officer and are personally known to him, or
  
  if he be otherwise satisfied that they are the persons they represent
  
  themselves to be, and if they all admit the execution of the document, or
  (b) If in the case of any person appearing by
  
  a representative, assignee or agent, such representative, assignee or agent
  
  admits the execution, or
  (c) If the person executing the document is
  
  dead, and his representative or assignee appears before the registering officer
  
  and admits the execution, the registering officer shall register the document as
  
  directed in sections 58 to 61, inclusive.
  (2) The registering officer may, in order to satisfy himself
  
  that the persons appearing before him are the persons they represent themselves
  
  to be, or for any other purpose contemplated by this Act, examine any one
  
  present in his office.
  (3)(a) If any person by whom the document purports to be
  
  executed denies its execution, or
  (b) if any such person appears to the
  
  registering officer to be a minor, an idiot or a lunatic, or
  (c) if any person by whom the document purports
  
  to be executed is dead, and his representative or assignee denies its
  
  execution, the registering officer shall refuse to register the document as to
  
  the person so denying, appearing or dead:
  PROVIDED that, where such officer is a Registrar, he
  
  shall follow the procedure prescribed in Part XII:
  28[PROVIDED FURTHERthat the State Government may, by
  
  notification in the Official Gazette, declare that any Sub-Registrar named in
  
  the notification shall, in respect of documents the execution of which is denied,
  
  be deemed to be a Registrar for the purposes of this sub-section and of Part
  
  XII. ]