Browsing Tag

land consolidation 1968

1 post
A 1968 typing mistake quietly transferred 9 aare of ancestral farmland from Kachru Bansod’s family to their neighbours, only on paper. For 57 years the Bansods continued cultivating it. On 21 November 2025, the Bombaybos HC quashed the injustice and restored the land, ruling that a clerical error can be corrected anytime when possession was never actually transferred.

57-Year Clerical Error That “Stole” a Family’s Land on Paper Finally Corrected

A 1968 typing mistake quietly transferred 9 aare of ancestral farmland from Kachru Bansod’s family to their neighbours, only on paper. For 57 years the Bansods continued cultivating it. On 21 November 2025, the Bombaybos HC quashed the injustice and restored the land, ruling that a clerical error can be corrected anytime when possession was never actually transferred.