No — and this is one of the clearest and most settled principles in Indian property law. A co-owner can sell only their own undivided share in jointly held property; they have no power to sell the shares of the other co-owners or to convey the whole property without universal consent.

The legal position flows from the Transfer of Property Act 1882: each co-owner holds a fractional undivided interest in the whole. A co-owner can transfer their own share without the others' consent (unless a specific agreement restricts this), but any buyer takes only that fractional interest and becomes a co-owner themselves — they cannot claim exclusive possession of any specific portion of the property. A sale deed purporting to convey the entire jointly held property, executed by only one co-owner, is valid only to the extent of that co-owner's own share and is challengeable by the other co-owners to the extent it purports to convey their interests. A buyer who purchases such a property without proper title verification takes on the risk of being joined in partition litigation.

Where co-owners disagree — one wishes to sell the whole, others refuse — the correct remedy is a partition suit before the civil court in Vadodara. The court determines each co-owner's share and either physically divides the property (practicable for large plots in VUDA zones or Waghodia periphery areas) or, where physical division is impractical (as with most flats and city plots), orders a sale of the whole with proceeds divided according to each share. A consensual arrangement — one co-owner buying out the others, or all co-owners agreeing to a joint sale — is always available and avoids the time and cost of a partition suit. The property advocates and retired judges at the Vadodara panel of Aapka Legal Advice can advise on whether mediation towards a consensual resolution is achievable, and if not, how to file the partition suit efficiently.