Revenue Records do not confer title to a property, nor do they have any presumptive value on title:

The Supreme Court has reiterated that the revenue records do not confer title to a property nor do they have any presumptive value on the title.

The above mention observation was made in the case of Prahlad Pradhan & Ors. vs Sonu Kumhar & Ors (Civil Appeal No. 5919 of 2011) decided on 16.10.2019.

Challenge:

If the predecessor (Mangal Kumhar’s) was the recorded tenant in the suit property as per survey settlement of 1964, will then the suit property be considered to be his self acquired property or not?

Held:

The Apex court while referring the judgment of “Sawarni vs. Inder Kaur, (1996) 6 SCC 223” held that the said contention is legally misconceived since entries in the revenue records do not confer title to a property, nor do they have any presumptive value on the title. Merely because Mangal Kumhar’s name is recorded in the survey settlement of 1964 as a recorded tenant in the suit property, it would not make him the sole and exclusive owner of the suit property. They only enable the person in whose favour mutation is recorded, to pay the land revenue in respect of the land in question.

The bench further dismissed the appeal holding that the appellant failed to adduce any evidence, apart from the survey settlement of 1964 to establish that the suit property was the self- acquired property of Sh. Mangal Kumhar.