Mutation entry for land in revenue records neither creates nor extinguishes title over such land, the Supreme Court held in its recent judgment..The mutation entry for land only enables the person in whose favour the entry is made to pay land revenue, the Court reiterated in the judgment delivered by a Bench of Justices Abhay Manohar Spare and R Subhash Reddy..The judgment was delivered in an appeal filed against a decision of the Bombay High Court relating to the mutation entry in the revenue records made in relation to the disputed land..The question of law to be decided on, in this case, was concerning the legal value of mutation entries in revenue records while deciding the rights of parties. The Court noted that the law on this question is well settled through various precedents of the Supreme Court..The judgment written by Justice Sapre states,.“This Court has consistently held that mutation of land in the revenue records does not create or extinguish the title over such land nor it has any presumptive value on the title. It only enables the person in whose favour mutation is ordered to pay the land revenue in question.”.The Bombay High Court had dismissed the appeal filed in the case, following which the decision was challenged before the Supreme Court..The Supreme Court found no merit in the appeal and stressed on the already settled law reiterating that legal value of mutation entries only decides who will pay the land revenue based on whose favour the mutation entry was made in..Read the Judgment:
Mutation entry for land in revenue records neither creates nor extinguishes title over such land, the Supreme Court held in its recent judgment..The mutation entry for land only enables the person in whose favour the entry is made to pay land revenue, the Court reiterated in the judgment delivered by a Bench of Justices Abhay Manohar Spare and R Subhash Reddy..The judgment was delivered in an appeal filed against a decision of the Bombay High Court relating to the mutation entry in the revenue records made in relation to the disputed land..The question of law to be decided on, in this case, was concerning the legal value of mutation entries in revenue records while deciding the rights of parties. The Court noted that the law on this question is well settled through various precedents of the Supreme Court..The judgment written by Justice Sapre states,.“This Court has consistently held that mutation of land in the revenue records does not create or extinguish the title over such land nor it has any presumptive value on the title. It only enables the person in whose favour mutation is ordered to pay the land revenue in question.”.The Bombay High Court had dismissed the appeal filed in the case, following which the decision was challenged before the Supreme Court..The Supreme Court found no merit in the appeal and stressed on the already settled law reiterating that legal value of mutation entries only decides who will pay the land revenue based on whose favour the mutation entry was made in..Read the Judgment:
