The sub-registrar's office at Sreepur in the district is in an awful state, but repair work cannot be done as a case over ownership of the land is pending with the High Court. 

Office sources said the office was built in 1927 on 32 decimals of land.

Around 75 documents of land are registered at the sub-registrar office per week. The documents and necessary papers of the office are taken to and brought from the Magura head office everyday as there is no protection for them in the two dilapidated semi-pucca buildings of the office, they added.

President of Deed Writers' Association of Sreepur Sub-registrar Office Jamir Uddin said the problems are multiplied in the rainy season.

Secretary of the Association Mashiur Rahman said the condition of the office is deplorable and it may collapse any time, causing loss of lives. The government should take steps to repair it as soon as possible, he added.    

Sub-registrar Joynal Abedin said repair work was started in 2006. The contractors brought materials for construction works but Sadhan Kumar Dey Shikdar, a resident of Sreepur town, got the work stopped through an injunction by the Additional District Magistrate's Court.

Sadhan said the land is his paternal property and the office took the building on rent. The office got the land recorded in its name through Revisional Survey in 2001, he added.

Sadhan filed a case at the District and Sessions Judge's Court in 2001 and got the record cancelled.

The sub-registrar's office filed a case against the cancellation at the High Court in 2015.

The case is now pending.