To,
The Circle Revenue Officer (Naib Tehsildar), Assistant Collector Second Grade,
Tehsil Complex, Grain Market Road,
Tehsil / Sub-Tehsil Jagraon,
Sub-Division Jagraon,
District Amritsar, Punjab.
Through the Halqa Patwari of the revenue estate of Village Kaunke Kalan, Patwar Circle Kaunke.
Subject: Correction of the khasra girdawari — the column of cultivation (khana kasht) — for Kharif 2025 (sawani), and Rabi 2025-2026 (sadi), in respect of Khasra / Killa No(s). 14//7 (8-0), 14//8 (8-0) and 14//13 (7-12), total measuring 23 kanals 12 marlas, Khewat No. 212, of the revenue estate of Village Kaunke Kalan, Hadbast No. 141, Tehsil / Sub-Tehsil Jagraon, District Amritsar.
Filed electronically on the Revenue Courts Management System (rcms.punjab.gov.in): RCMS/LDH/JGN/CRO/2026/000814
Respected Sir / Madam,
I, Gurmail Singh, son of Sh. Jagir Singh, aged about 54 years, by occupation agriculture, resident of Village Kaunke Kalan, Tehsil Jagraon, District Ludhiana, Punjab 142026, mobile +91 XXXXX XXXXX, Aadhaar No. ending 4471, most respectfully submit as follows.
I am the recorded owner (malik) of the said land, whose name stands in the ownership column of the jamabandi, and I am therefore a person concerned in the entry to which this application relates.
The applicant resides outside India. The applicant ordinarily resides at Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, and was accordingly not present in the revenue estate when the harvest inspection or inspections complained of were made. Notice and dates may be conveyed to him at the mobile number given above and at the address given above, and he undertakes to attend, personally or through his duly constituted attorney, on every date fixed by this Office.
Signed and presented by an attorney. This application is signed and presented on behalf of the applicant by his duly constituted attorney, Sh. Harpreet Singh, appointed under a General Power of Attorney dated 14 March 2024, executed before the Consulate General of India, Vancouver, and registered with the Sub-Registrar, Jagraon, on 2 May 2024. The original instrument of authority is produced herewith for inspection before the Halqa Patwari and before this Office, and a copy is filed with this application. The attorney signs at the foot of this application in that capacity and in no other.
Joint applicant. This application is made jointly with Jarnail Singh, son of Sh. Jagir Singh, who is likewise concerned in the cultivation of the said land and who signs and verifies at the foot of this application.
The land to which this application relates is situate in the revenue estate of Village Kaunke Kalan, Tehsil / Sub-Tehsil Jagraon, District Amritsar, Punjab, and is described as follows.
| Particular | As entered in the record |
|---|---|
| Revenue estate (mauza) | Kaunke Kalan |
| Hadbast number | Hadbast No. 141 |
| Patwar circle | Patwar Circle Kaunke |
| Khewat No. | 212 |
| Khatauni No. | 389 |
| Khasra / Killa No(s). | 14//7 (8-0), 14//8 (8-0) and 14//13 (7-12), total measuring 23 kanals 12 marlas |
| Total area | 23 kanals 12 marlas |
| Current jamabandi of the estate | 2021-2022 |
| Harvests to which this application relates | Kharif 2025 (sawani), and Rabi 2025-2026 (sadi) |
A nakal (copy) of the khasra girdawari for the said harvests, obtained on 2 April 2026, is filed with this application, and the entry complained of is marked upon it. A nakal jamabandi (fard) for the year 2021-2022 of the said revenue estate is also filed.
3.1 The entry as it now stands. For Kharif 2025 and Rabi 2025-2026 the column of cultivation against Killa Nos. 14//7, 14//8 and 14//13 records Sh. Balkar Singh son of Sh. Nand Singh as the cultivator, and the crop is entered as paddy and wheat respectively as sown by him.
3.2 The entry as it ought to read. For Kharif 2025 and Rabi 2025-2026 the column of cultivation against Killa Nos. 14//7, 14//8 and 14//13 should record the applicant, Gurmail Singh son of Sh. Jagir Singh, as the cultivator, the paddy and the wheat having been sown, irrigated and harvested by him.
3.3 The column affected. The error appears in the column of cultivation (khana kasht) of the harvest inspection book of the said revenue estate, for Kharif 2025 (sawani), and Rabi 2025-2026 (sadi).
3.4 How the wrong entry came to be made. The applicant was in Canada from March 2025 to January 2026. During his absence Sh. Balkar Singh, a distant cousin who cultivates the adjoining killas, was present at the field when the kharif inspection was made and was recorded as cultivator. The entry was then carried forward into the rabi inspection without a fresh inquiry. No lease, theka or batai arrangement of any kind has ever existed between the applicant and Sh. Balkar Singh.
3.5 When it came to notice. The applicant first became aware of the wrong entry on or about 1 April 2026, and has come before this Office without avoidable delay since, the nakal of the khasra girdawari filed herewith having been obtained on 2 April 2026.
4.1 The applicant has been in cultivating possession of the said khasra numbers since Kharif 2016, without a break in any harvest since, and has himself sown, irrigated and harvested the crop of each such harvest and borne the cost of cultivation, the produce being dealt with according to the footing upon which he holds the land, which is stated in clause 4.2 below.
4.2 The applicant holds and cultivates the said land upon the footing of ownership recorded in the ownership column of the jamabandi.
4.3 The crop now standing. There is at present standing upon the said khasra numbers a crop of wheat, sown in the first week of November 2025 and expected to be harvested in the second half of April 2026, sown by the applicant. It is the best and most immediate evidence of who is in cultivating possession, and the applicant prays that it be looked at before it is harvested and the opportunity is lost.
4.4 Under paragraphs 9.8 and 9.9 of the Punjab Land Records Manual the crops are to be entered in the khasra girdawari as the inspection proceeds, and changes in rights, rents and possession are to be recorded in the appropriate columns at the same time. The entry complained of does not record what was upon the land, and it does not record who was upon it.
5.1 Documents. Nakal khasra girdawari for Kharif 2023 and Rabi 2023-2024 showing the applicant as cultivator; PSPCL agricultural tubewell connection bearing Account No. AP-3312/K in the applicant's name, with bills for the period April 2025 to March 2026; J-Form No. 1187 dated 22 October 2025 of the market committee for paddy sold from the said killas; fertiliser invoices dated 12 June 2025 and 3 November 2025 from the cooperative society; and the arhtiya's ledger account for the crop year 2025-2026.
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.
5.3 Oral evidence. The applicant will produce, at the spot inspection or before this Office, the persons named in clause 8.6 below, who have personal knowledge of the cultivation of the said khasra numbers.
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.