It is true that the entries in the revenue record ought, generally, to be accepted at their face value and courts should not embark upon an appellate inquiry in to their correctness. But the presumption of correctness can apply only to genuine, not forged or fraudulent, entries. The distinction may be fine but it is real. The distinction is that one cannot challenge the correctness of what the entry is the revenue record states but the entry is open to the attack that it was Made fraudulently or surreptitiously. Fraud and forgery rob a document of all its legal effect and cannot found a claim to possessory title.
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Supreme Court of India
Vishwa Vijai Bharti vs Fakhrul Hasan & Ors on 4 May, 1976
Equivalent citations: 1976 AIR 1485, 1976 SCR 519
BENCH: CHANDRACHUD, Y.V. SHINGAL, P.N.
