Smt. Bhimabai Mahadeo Kambekar (D) Th. Lr. vs Arthur Import and Export Company & Ors.

Court

Supreme Court of India

Date

31 January 2019

Case No.

Civil Appeal No. 1330 of 2019

Result

Dismissed

Bench

Abhay Manohar Sapre, R. Subhash Reddy

Citation

[2019] 1 S.C.R. 812 : 2019 INSC 120

Headnote

Mutation:

Mutation entries – Evidentiary value – Held: Mutation of land in revenue records does not create or extinguish the title over such land – It also has no presumptive value on the title – It only enables the person in whose favour mutation is ordered to pay the land revenue in question – Appeal dismissed. Sawarni (Smt.) v. Inder Kaur (1996) 6 SCC 223 : [1996]

5 Suppl. SCR 165; Balwant Singh & Anr. v. Daulat Singh(dead) by L.Rs. & Ors, (1997) 7 SCC 137; Narasamma & Ors. v. State of Karnataka & Ors. (2009)

5 SCC 591 : [2009] 4 SCR 929 – relied on.

The Judgment of the Court was delivered by ABHAY MANOHAR SAPRE, J. 1. Leave granted. 2. This appeal is directed against the final judgment and order dated 30.09.2011 passed by the High Court of Judicature at Bombay in Writ Petition No.6235 of 2011 whereby the Single Judge of the High Court dismissed the writ petition filed by the appellants herein. 3. Few facts need mention infra to appreciate the short controversy involved in this appeal. 4. The dispute, which has reached to this Court in this appeal at the instance of one party to such dispute, arises out of and relates to the entries ma

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