- 1 - HC-KAR NC: 2026:KHC:9548 WP No. 38887 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT BENGALURU DATED THIS THE 16TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 2026 BEFORE THE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE R DEVDAS WRIT PETITION NO. 38887 OF 2025 (KLR-RR/SUR) BETWEEN: SRI MANJEGOWDA, S/O LATE SWAMYGOWDA, AGED ABOUT 43 YEARS, R/O KARALU VILLAGE, KUNDOORU HOBLI, ALUR TALUK, HASSAN DISTRICT - 573 213. …PETITIONER (BY SRI. ROHITH B.J, ADVOCATE) AND: 1. STATE OF KARNATAKA, REPRESENTED BY ITS SECRETARY, REVENUE DEPARTMENT, M.S. BUILDING, BENGALURU - 560 001. 2. ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER, HASSAN SUB-DIVISION, HASSAN - 573 201. 3. TAHSILDAR, ALUR TALUK, HASSAN DISTRICT - 573 213. …RESPONDENTS (BY SMT.NAVYA SHEKHAR, AGA) Digitally signed by JUANITA THEJESWINI Location: HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA - 2 - HC-KAR NC: 2026:KHC:9548 WP No. 38887 of 2025 THIS WP IS FILED UNDER ARTICLES 226 AND 227 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA PRAYING TO ISSUE A WRIT OF CERTIORARI OR ANY OTHER WRIT OR ORDER QUASHING THE ENDORSEMENT DATED 30/09/2025 BEARING NO. RRT (KU) 112/2024-25 ISSUED BY 3RD RESPONDENT HEREWITH PRODUCED AS ANNEXURE-D AND ETC., THIS PETITION, COMING ON FOR PRELIMINARY HEARING, THIS DAY, ORDER WAS MADE THEREIN AS UNDER: CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE R DEVDAS ORAL ORDER The grievance of the petitioner is directed towards the impugned endorsement at Annexure-D dated 30.09.2025 issued by the respondent-Tahsildar, Alur Taluk. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the land in question viz., 2 acres 30 guntas in Sy.No.37/P6 of Kadalu Village, Kundur Hobli, Alur Taluk, Hassan District, stands in the name of Sri.Swamy Gowda S/o Ningegowda. After his death, one of the legal heirs filed a suit in O.S.No.122/2008 seeking partition and separate possession. Ultimately by way of a compromise petition - 3 - HC-KAR NC: 2026:KHC:9548 WP No. 38887 of 2025 filed between the parties, the property in question has fallen to the share of the petitioner Sri.Manjegowda. Since the other parties have relinquished their rights over the property in question. In terms of the compromise decree the petitioner is seeking to enter his name in the revenue records. However, the impugned endorsement has been issued by the Tahsildar calling upon the petitioner to furnish the original grant records. 2. This Court in W.P.No.38517/2025 disposed of on 05.02.2026 has held when the Tahsildar had called for production of the original grant orders, while considering similar application for change of khata, on the basis of a Government Order bearing No.ComE156/SSM/2024, Bengaluru dated 25.11.2024 issued by the Revenue Department of the State Government, that it is only in cases where phodi and durasth is sought in respect of granted lands (dharkhast), such information can be called for. The said Government Order cannot be made use of by the Tahsildars in case of change of khata. Recently, it - 4 - HC-KAR NC: 2026:KHC:9548 WP No. 38887 of 2025 appears that the Revenue Department has made provision for consideration of such applications for change of khata, without the intervention of the Tahsildars. 3. However, in the present case, this Court finds that the compromise decree passed in O.S.No.122/2008 is not registered in the office of the jurisdictional Sub-Registrar. The petitioner is required to get the compromise decree registered. Once the decree is registered, the 'J' slip will be generated from the office of the Sub-Registrar and forwarded to the Tahsildar. The Tahsildar shall be duty bound to proceed to mutate and enter the name of the petitioner, in terms of the decree passed by the competent Court. 4. In that view of the matter, the writ petition stands disposed of with a direction to the petitioner to get the compromise decree registered. As and when the registered 'J' slip is generated and forwarded to the office of the respondent-Tahsildar, the Tahsildar shall proceed to enter the name of the petitioner in the revenue records in - 5 - HC-KAR NC: 2026:KHC:9548 WP No. 38887 of 2025 terms of the time stipulated in the Karnataka Sakaala Act, 2011 or in terms of the recent Circular issued by the Revenue Department regarding change of khata. Ordered accordingly. Sd/- (R DEVDAS) JUDGE rv/JT