DARKHWAST DURUSTGI KHASRA GIRDAWARI

Application for correction of a wrong entry in the khasra girdawari (harvest inspection register), under Chapter 9 of the Punjab Land Records Manual and in particular paragraph 9.9(f) thereof, read with sections 31, 33, 36, 44 and 45 of the Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1887

To,

The __________,
Tehsil / Sub-Tehsil __________,
Sub-Division __________,
District __________, Punjab.

Through the Halqa Patwari of the revenue estate of Village __________.

1. The applicant

The land to which this application relates is situate in the revenue estate of Village __________, Tehsil / Sub-Tehsil __________, District __________, Punjab, and is described as follows.

3. The entry complained of

4. The applicant's cultivation and possession

5. The material relied upon

5.2 Production of originals. The applicant will produce the originals of every document relied upon before the Halqa Patwari, before the Field Kanungo and before this Office as and when required, and will attend on any date that may be fixed.

6.1 The applicant does not by this application seek any mutation. A mutation (intkal) under section 34 of the Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1887 is the instrument by which an acquisition of an interest by inheritance, purchase, mortgage or otherwise is brought upon the record, and nothing of that kind is asked for here. Nor does the applicant seek a fard badar under paragraph 7.29 of the Punjab Land Records Manual, which is the instrument for correcting a clerical error already carried into the jamabandi, and which paragraph 7.30 keeps distinct from the mutation machinery.

6.2 The applicant does not by this application seek any declaration of title, nor the creation, transfer, limitation, extension or extinguishment of any right in the said land. By section 44 of the Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1887 an entry in a record-of-rights or in an annual record is presumed to be true only until the contrary is proved or a new entry is lawfully substituted for it, and by section 45 a person who disputes the correctness of an entry as a matter of right is left to his suit for a declaratory decree, now under section 34 of the Specific Relief Act, 1963. Nothing sought here trespasses upon that.

6.3 Sections 31 and 33 of the Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1887 provide for the record-of-rights of an estate and for the annual record prepared and maintained from it, and place upon the Revenue Officer the duty of seeing that the record is correctly made and kept. Section 36 of the same Act empowers a Revenue Officer, where a dispute exists as to an entry, to ascertain by summary inquiry the person in possession and to enter that person, leaving the question of right to be determined by a competent court. It is upon that footing, and no wider, that the applicant comes before this Office.

6.4 The correction sought takes nothing from any person that is his and gives the applicant nothing that he does not already hold. It asks only that the record say what was in fact upon the land in the harvests named.

7. The period to which this application is confined

7.2 The applicant is aware that paragraph 9.9(d) of the Punjab Land Records Manual provides that no correction of the khasra girdawari may be made after the kachha papers of the harvest have been drawn or corrected, and prays that this application be taken up and decided before the papers of the harvests named are drawn or corrected.

7.4 Under paragraph 7.57 of the Punjab Land Records Manual the preparation of a new jamabandi is begun by the Halqa Patwari and the Field Kanungo in the cold weather, before the middle of January, when they visit the estate, inquire of the right-holders as to unrecorded changes, read out the existing entries and note changes in the remarks column; and under paragraph 7.56 mutations upon which final orders have been passed up to 15 June inclusive, or such later date as the Director, Land Records, Punjab may approve, are incorporated in the new jamabandi. If the wrong entry is left to stand, it will be carried into the cultivation column of the next jamabandi of the estate and will thereafter be very much harder to disturb.

8. Notice, hearing and spot inspection

8.1 The applicant asks that the other side be heard. The applicant is aware that under paragraph 9.9(f) of the Punjab Land Records Manual a Revenue Officer of the rank of a Naib-Tehsildar or above may order the correction of a wrong entry that has crept into the khasra girdawari only after giving to the parties concerned an opportunity of being heard. The applicant does not seek an order behind anybody's back, and prays that notice issue to every person concerned before any correction is ordered.

9. Pending proceedings

9.1 Save as expressly disclosed in this clause 9, no suit, appeal, revision or other proceeding relating to the said land, or to the possession thereof, is pending before any civil court or any revenue authority, and no such proceeding has been decided against the applicant. The applicant further undertakes to bring to the notice of this Office, forthwith, any proceeding relating to the said land or to the possession thereof which may be instituted, or which may come to his knowledge, after the presentation of this application.

11. Prayer

It is therefore most respectfully prayed that this Office may be pleased to order as follows —

(a) that notice issue to every person concerned in the entry complained of, and that they be given an opportunity of being heard, as required by paragraph 9.9(f) of the Punjab Land Records Manual;

(f) that the correction so ordered be entered by the Halqa Patwari in red ink in the harvest inspection book, be scrutinised by the area Kanungo, and be carried into the cultivation entries of the next jamabandi prepared for the said revenue estate; and

(g) that such further or other order be made as may be thought fit in the circumstances of the case.

12. Fees and court fee

12.1 The applicant undertakes to pay every fee lawfully chargeable, on demand, and to place the receipt on the file.

12.4 Copying. The scale the applicant has been able to find is the copying scale in paragraph 3.48 of the Punjab Land Records Manual, read with rule 71 of the Punjab Land Revenue Rules, as published and checked on 6 September 2026: Rs. 20 per page of the original for a certified copy of a jamabandi, a fard badar, a pending mutation, the counterfoils of mutation sheets and the misal haqiat; Rs. 20 for a fard haqiat irrespective of the number of khewats; Rs. 20 per four fields for tracing a field map or a tatima shajra; and Rs. 20 per inspection of the papers of one quinquennium, those fees being credited to the head "0029 - Land Revenue - 800 - other Receipts - 07 - Copying and Inspection Fee of patwaris Record". The khasra girdawari is not separately named in that scale, and the applicant requests that the entry under which any fee for a girdawari nakal is charged be stated on the receipt. The applicant does not assert that this scale is the current one and will pay whatever is lawfully demanded against a printed receipt.

12.5 A computerised nakal issued from a Fard Kendra or a Sewa Kendra is furnished under rule 71-B of the Punjab Land Revenue Rules, notified vide No. G.S.R/P.A/1887/Ss.155 and 156/Amd.2009 dated 28-05-2009, on the fee prescribed for it, which is not the rule 71 page rate set out above; the applicant will pay the prescribed rule 71-B fee against a printed receipt on being told what it is.

13. Enclosures

Applicant

Signature to the application and to the verification ______________________

ANNEXURE B — COMPARATIVE STATEMENT FOR THE HALQA PATWARI AND THE FIELD KANUNGO

This statement is filled in by the applicant to save the Halqa Patwari's time. It is not a prescribed form and is not a substitute for the khasra girdawari itself, which is written and kept by the Halqa Patwari under Chapter 9 of the Punjab Land Records Manual. Everything set out below is as stated by the applicant and is subject to verification against the harvest inspection book. Where a correction is ordered by the __________ under paragraph 9.9(f) of the Manual, it is the Halqa Patwari who makes it in red ink in the harvest inspection book, and the area Kanungo who scrutinises it.

Receipt by the Halqa Patwari: Received the application and this statement, and checked against the record of the revenue estate of Village __________. The khasra girdawari for the harvests named will be produced before the __________.

Signature of the Halqa Patwari, with date and seal ______________________

Signature of the Field Kanungo, with date and seal ______________________

Date and time of inspection ______________________

Order: Passed after hearing the parties concerned, as required by paragraph 9.9(f) of the Punjab Land Records Manual. Where a correction is ordered, it is to be entered in red ink in the harvest inspection book by the Halqa Patwari and scrutinised by the area Kanungo.

Signature and seal of the __________, with date ______________________