New Delhi, Aug. 24 -- The Supreme Court has reiterated that mutation or an entry in revenue records neither creates nor extinguishes ownership of immovable property and cannot, by itself, be used to decide a title dispute.

A bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and Augustine George Masih set aside a Madhya Pradesh High Court order that had relied on revenue records to hold that a co-owner had relinquished his rights in a joint family property.

Background

The case concerned agricultural land originally owned by Bhagwansingh, which devolved on his sons, Ramprasad and Vasudev. The property was initially recorded jointly in their names but was later shown in the names of Vasudev and his son.

Ramprasad's legal heirs sought a declaration of co-ow...