Naganagouda S/O Shivanagouda Niralagi v. the Deputy Commissioner
Revenue records – Recordal of rights
Case brief
What is this about?
Karnataka High Court, Dharwad Bench (single judge, Suraj Govindaraj J.), decision dated 12.09.2025 in WP No. 103858 of 2025 (KLR-RES). Petitioner Naganagouda S/o Shivanagouda Neeralagi challenged, by certiorari, the Deputy Commissioner's order dated 03.04.2025 in R.P. No. 54/2024 which set aside the Assistant Commissioner's and Tahsildar's orders recording the Petitioner's name in revenue records on the strength of a compromise petition in O.S. No.2 of 2014 (specific performance suit) under which defendants No.1 to 19 agreed to execute a sale deed. Held: ownership or any right, title or interest cannot be claimed or mutated in revenue records on a compromise alone without an executed and registered sale deed; no execution proceedings having been filed, the Deputy Commissioner's order stood. Petition disposed of with liberty to pursue execution of the compromise decree; contentions left open. Keywords: certiorari, Articles 226/227, revenue records, mutation, compromise petition, compromise decree, specific performance, sale deed, execution, R.P. No. 54/2024, O.S. No.2 of 2014, Deputy Commissioner Dharwad.