Pointing out that the court is flooded with petitions seeking directions to tahsildars to enter names of purchasers of lands in revenue records, the High Court of Karnataka directed the Principal Secretary of the Revenue Department to ensure that tahsildars adhere to the timeline for changing names in revenue records in undisputed cases as per the time frame fixed in the Karnataka Sakaala Services Act, 2011.
The court directed the Principal Secretary to ensure that the notice boards in the office of the tahsildars should henceforth indicate the information regarding pending/disposed of applications in terms of the provisions of the Sakaala Act.
Justice R. Devdas issued the directions while allowing a petition filed by Annapurneshwari Builders and Developments, which has complained that Bengaluru North Taluk Tahsildar has filed to change the khata in their name since 2023.
Pointing out that the time frame fixed for changing the name in the khata is 60 days (in undisputed cases) under the Sakaala Act, the court said that if the tahsildars do their duty in terms of the law, there is no need for the purchasers, who have acquired title over the land, to knock the doors of the court.
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