Land Record / Bhulekh Extract in Delhi (Indraprastha Bhulekh Khasra Khatauni)

What is a land record in Delhi and who maintains it?

A land record in Delhi is the revenue register entry describing a parcel of land, its khasra number, its area, the class of land, the recorded bhumidar or owner, and the entries about cultivation and rights. The Revenue Department, Government of NCT of Delhi maintains these registers through the Patwari of each halqa, the Kanungo, and the revenue tehsil under the Sub-Divisional Magistrate.

Delhi publishes the digitised version of these registers on Indraprastha Bhulekh at dlrc.delhi.gov.in, which the portal describes as the computerised land records service of the Revenue Department, hosted by the National Informatics Centre. Three services are listed on it:

• Khasra Khatauni details. The field-wise record maintained under the Delhi Land Reforms Act.
• Jamabandi details, the ownership and cultivation record maintained under the Punjab Land Revenue Act, which continues to apply in parts of Delhi.
• GIS map, a map view of revenue villages and parcels.

That two-statute split is unusual and it is the first thing to understand about Delhi. A parcel that returns nothing under Khasra Khatauni may well exist under Jamabandi, and vice versa. Check both before deciding that no record exists.

Does every property in Delhi have a land record?

No, and this is where most searches in Delhi fail. Revenue land records exist for agricultural and village land, organised by revenue village and khasra number. They do not cover the great majority of urban Delhi.

• A DDA flat, a cooperative group housing society flat, a builder floor in a colony or a shop in a market has no khatauni entry. Its ownership is proved by the registered sale or conveyance deed, the DDA or society allotment record, and the entry at the Sub-Registrar.
• Land acquired for planned development typically had its revenue record closed when the acquisition was completed, so the old khasra survives in history but not as a live holding.
• Unauthorised colonies built on former agricultural khasras may still show an old khasra entry that no longer reflects who lives there. That entry is not proof of title to a plot inside the colony.

Anyone buying property in Delhi should therefore treat Bhulekh as one check among several, not as the ownership document. For village and agricultural land it is central; for a flat it is largely irrelevant.

Who can look up a Delhi land record and who cannot?

You can look up a record if:

• You are the recorded bhumidar or owner of agricultural or village land in Delhi.
• You are a prospective buyer checking a khasra number before paying money.
• You are a legal heir establishing what a deceased relative held before applying for mutation.
• You are a bank, advocate or valuer verifying a rural holding.
• You are any member of the public. Indraprastha Bhulekh is an open public view: no login, no registration and no stated reason is required to search.

You cannot get a useful result if:

• You do not have the khasra number and the revenue village. A postal address or a colony name cannot be searched.
• The property is an urban flat or a colony plot with no revenue record, as described above.
• You want a legally usable certified copy, you cannot get that from the website. The portal's own note says the information is provided for information purposes only and directs users to the local revenue tehsil office.
• You are looking for registration or encumbrance details. Registered deeds in Delhi sit with the Sub-Registrar under the Revenue Department, not in the khatauni.

How to get a land record in Delhi online

1. Open dlrc.delhi.gov.in, the Indraprastha Bhulekh portal of the Delhi Revenue Department.
2. Choose the service — Khasra Khatauni details for land under the Delhi Land Reforms Act, or Jamabandi details for land under the Punjab Land Revenue Act. If you do not know which applies, try Khasra Khatauni first and then Jamabandi.
3. Select the district from the dropdown. Delhi has 11 revenue districts, and the tehsil and village lists load only after a district is chosen.
4. Select the revenue village. Revenue village names often differ from the colony name people use in conversation, so match the name on your deed.
5. Enter the khasra number, or the khata or khatauni number where the service offers it. Some screens also allow a search by recorded owner name.
6. Read the record on screen. The khasra, the area, the class of land, the recorded holder and the entries against the holding.
7. Print or save the page for your own reference. Treat it as information only; it is not a certified document.
8. Open the GIS map on the same portal if you want to see where the khasra physically sits in relation to neighbouring parcels.

The whole process is instant and free. No registration, no OTP and no payment screen is involved anywhere in it.

How to get a certified copy from the revenue tehsil

1. Identify the revenue tehsil with jurisdiction over the revenue village. Each tehsil works under the Sub-Divisional Magistrate of the subdivision.
2. Carry the khasra number, the revenue village name and the district, plus your own identity proof and a copy of the deed if you have one.
3. Submit a written application at the tehsil counter for a certified copy of the khatauni or jamabandi entry, stating the khasra and the year.
4. Pay the notified counter fee and take the printed receipt with the application number on it.
5. Collect the certified copy on the date given, signed and stamped by the issuing official. Check the khasra number and spellings before leaving.

The offline route matters in Delhi because the certified copy is the version a bank, a court, a mutation application or a registering authority will accept.

How do I check status and get help?

• Online: re-run the search on dlrc.delhi.gov.in, the portal shows the current record, so any correction the Patwari has posted appears there once it is uploaded.
• At the tehsil: quote the application number from your receipt at the counter where you applied.
• Escalation: the Patwari of the halqa, then the Kanungo, then the Tehsildar, then the Sub-Divisional Magistrate of the subdivision, and finally the Divisional Commissioner (Revenue), Delhi.
• Portal problems: the contact details published in the footer of dlrc.delhi.gov.in are the correct route for a website fault, as the site is hosted by NIC for the Revenue Department.

Delhi has not published a single toll-free land records helpline, so use the tehsil and SDM chain rather than a number found on a private website.

Is a Delhi land record valid for a fixed period?

A khatauni or jamabandi entry has no expiry date. What changes is the record itself: every sale, inheritance, partition or acquisition should produce a mutation entry, and until that mutation is recorded the register still shows the old holder.

For that reason banks and buyers ask for a recently issued certified copy; typically one taken out within the last few weeks; rather than an old one lying in a file. There is no renewal procedure; you simply take a fresh copy.

Why do Delhi land record searches go wrong?

• Wrong revenue village selected. The colony name and the revenue village name are frequently different.
• Khasra number mistyped, including the small-number suffixes that separate subdivided parcels.
• Searching only one of the two services. A record under the Punjab Land Revenue Act will not appear under the Delhi Land Reforms Act service.
• Expecting a record for an urban flat, which does not exist.
• Relying on an unmutated entry. A sale registered years ago but never mutated leaves the seller's name on the record.
• Treating the free printout as a certificate, and having it refused by a bank or a court.
• Buying into an unauthorised colony on the strength of an old khasra entry, which does not establish title to an individual plot.

What does it cost, and what should you refuse to pay?

Viewing land records on Indraprastha Bhulekh is completely free. There is no subscription, no per-record charge and no login. A certified copy from the revenue tehsil costs only the notified fee charged at the counter, against a printed receipt.

Agents and touts outside Delhi tehsil offices offer to "get your khatauni fast" for a few hundred or a few thousand rupees. They are opening the same free public page you can open on a phone, or filing the same one-page application at the same counter. There is no priority queue at a Delhi tehsil, and no official can create, delete or alter a khasra entry outside a recorded mutation or correction proceeding. Search the record yourself first at dlrc.delhi.gov.in, and pay only the counter fee for the certified version. Never hand your original deed or identity documents to an agent, and never accept a "certified" khatauni that did not come from a tehsil counter with a receipt.