BENGALURU: The High Court has issued guidelines aimed at integrating civil court decrees into the state’s digital revenue systems, ensuring that judicially declared rights are promptly reflected in land records.
Justice Sachin Shankar Magadum has launched a new workflow, titled ‘Mutation based on Civil Court Decree’ in Kaveri 2.0, designed to streamline decree-based mutations and reduce uncertainties for revenue authorities.
Under this new module, the departments of stamps and registration alongside the revenue department, in cooperation with the Centre for Smart Governance, will verify decrees, automatically generate mutation requests to Bhoomi, and facilitate the recording of proportional shares in the Record of Rights, Tenancy, and Crops (RTC) document. A provision for attaching 11-E sketches will also be available when land subdivision is requested.
The principal secretary of the revenue department is tasked with forming a joint legal-technical committee to design and implement these system modifications within six months, with their execution to be monitored through periodic audits at the taluk level.
These directives align with sections 128 and 135 of the Karnataka Land Revenue Act of 1964, aimed at preventing misuse of decrees by losing parties, reducing litigation, minimizing human errors, and enhancing transparency, noted Justice Magadum.
