MUTATION ON A WILL
TESTAMENTARY BASIS
ESTATE PROPERTY
WILL AND SUCCESSION MATERIAL
The request is confined to mutation on the testamentary basis presented. If the will, heirship, capacity, execution or competing testamentary claim is disputed, the mutation authority should follow the lawful hearing/evidence route rather than treat this application as conclusive proof of the will.
HEIRS AND OBJECTIONS
REQUEST
Please consider the testamentary record, affected-heir notice requirements and the existing record of rights, and decide the mutation accordingly.
LEGAL BASIS
In Punjab this application is the report of a change in rights under section 34 of the Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1887. It is addressed to the Circle Revenue Officer through the Halqa Patwari of the revenue estate, and can be handed to the Patwari or lodged at the Fard Kendra of the tehsil or sub-tehsil; the Halqa Patwari enters it in the register of mutations, the Field Kanungo validates the entry, and the Circle Revenue Officer, a Naib Tehsildar or Tehsildar, attests, sanctions or rejects it. A mutation records a change of rights; it does not create title. An entry in the record of rights is presumed true only until the contrary is proved (section 44 of the Act), and section 45 sends anyone who disputes it to a civil suit for a declaration. In Chandigarh only the Union Territory's revenue villages carry a jamabandi; there the Patwari holds the record of rights and the Tehsildar or Naib Tehsildar of the Union Territory attests the mutation. A sector property held from the Estate Office has no jamabandi and is not mutated this way: the Estate Office's own transfer procedure applies.
PERSONAL DATA NOTICE
This notice is given under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.
Personal data in this document is collected only to apply for and administer mutation on a will in the relevant land or estate record, communicate about that purpose, verify expressly supplied land-record information and retain an evidentiary filing record.
If the request is withdrawn, refused or does not proceed, personal data will be retained for 90 days and then erased. If the request proceeds, the record will be retained for the proceeding plus 12 months, except where a statute or official record-retention rule requires a longer named period.
Data minimisation: this document does not collect a full Aadhaar number, an Aadhaar-card copy, a password or unrelated financial information, and none should be written into it unless the receiving authority's own lawful verification process specifically requires it.
SIGNATURE
______________________________
Signature
Applicant: __________
Place: ____________________
Date: ____________________