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Pravesh DabasAdvocate Delhi, India

08 · Regulatory & Public Law

Land Revenue Matters

Land revenue matters are proceedings before revenue authorities about land records, mutation, demarcation and related rights in land.

Proceedings before revenue authorities about land records, mutation and related appeals.

What this covers

  1. 01Mutation of land records
  2. 02Correction of revenue entries
  3. 03Demarcation of land
  4. 04Proceedings before revenue courts
  5. 05Revenue appeals and revisions

How it generally works

In Delhi, revenue matters are governed by the Delhi Land Revenue Act, 1954 and the Delhi Land Reforms Act, 1954, and are handled by revenue officers such as tehsildars and sub-divisional magistrates, with appeals to higher revenue authorities.

Revenue records such as the khatauni record possession and cultivation, and are important evidence, but mutation entries do not by themselves decide ownership.

Disputes about title are usually decided by civil courts, while revenue courts deal with matters assigned to them by statute.