Mutation does not confer ownership

Mutation of a piece of land in the revenue records does not create or extinguish the title over such land nor it has any presumptive value on the title. “It only enables the person in whose favour mutation is ordered to pay the land revenue in question,” the Supreme Court clarified in its judgment in the case, Smt Bhimabai vs Arthur Impex Co While dismissing the appeal against the order of the Bombay High Court, the apex court stated that since civil suits in relation to the land in question were pending in the courts between the parties, it would not embark upon any factual inquiries into the question as to whether the entries were properly made or not and at whose instance they were made. It is more so when they neither decide the title nor extinguish the title of the parties.