Case brief
What is this about?
Keywords: Karnataka Land Revenue Act Section 136(2); mutation entries dispute; Special Tahsildar Yelahanka; layout formed and constructions on survey land; notice and hearing to rival parties before revenue orders; natural justice in quasi-judicial revenue adjudication; endorsement following earlier W.P.No.10385 of 2024; Articles 226 & 227 writ; disposed with directions to hear parties and conclude within three months. Bench: Hon'ble Mr. Justice R Devdas (single judge, oral order). Useful for: obligations of Tahsildar/Tahasildar-level officers to notify and hear all affected persons (including mutation holders) before deciding rival claims to land revenue records; impropriety of referring a claimant to S.136(2) forum without first hearing the parties.
What did the court decide?
Writ petition disposed of with directions to respondent No.2-Special Tahsildar, Yelahanka: (i) issue notice to the persons said to have formed the layout or put up constructions on the lands in question and/or any persons in whose name mutation entries have been made; (ii) hear the rival parties; (iii) thereafter pass appropriate orders in accordance with law; (iv) conclude the entire exercise expeditiously and at any rate within three months from receipt of a copy of this order.