The record of rights for agricultural land, showing holder, extent, crops and any charges noted in the other-rights column. That other-rights column is where a mortgage or a tenancy usually first appears.
Issued through Maharashtra Bhulekh (Mahabhumi) · IGR Maharashtra (registration).
What it proves
- Who the revenue authority currently records as the holder of the survey number
- The extent and the classification of the land — patta, government, assigned, inam or forest
- The sequence of mutation entries by which the revenue record moved from one name to another
What it does not prove
- Ownership. In most of India the record of rights is presumptive evidence of possession for revenue purposes and is expressly not a document of title
- That the registered deed chain agrees with it. Revenue records and registration records are maintained by different departments and routinely disagree
- That the land can be sold to you. Classification as assigned, inam or government land can bar transfer regardless of whose name appears
How to obtain it
- 1Look the survey number up on the state land-records portal, or obtain a certified extract from the village or taluk revenue office
- 2Pull the mutation register alongside it — the current entry alone hides how the name got there
- 3Match the extent and boundaries against the sale deed and against the cadastral map before relying on any of it
Where people get caught
- The land-nature or classification column is the one that decides whether a sale is even possible. Assigned and government land can carry a permanent or long-period alienation bar, and a clean-looking holder name does not cure it
- Digitised records inherit the errors of the manual registers they were keyed from. A name, extent or classification can be wrong in the portal and right in the physical register, or the reverse
- Subdivision lags reality. One survey number in the record may be several plots on the ground, and the extent shown may be the parent extent, not what you are buying
One record is never the answer
Every record on this page answers one narrow question. A title position needs the registered deed chain, the revenue record, the prohibited-property register, the litigation search and the municipal record read against each other, because the defects that cost buyers money live in the disagreements between them. LegiScore runs those searches across 14 states, a lawyer reviews the output, and the property is graded from AAA to C.