The Karnataka High Court last month highlighted the need for a regulatory framework and guidelines to deal with cases where converted lands that are not part of a sanctioned layout are acquired, saying “there is a pressing necessity for the State to devise a comprehensive scheme to regulate such transactions”.

The observations were made in the context of a petition seeking the issuance of an e-khata—a digital version of a property document in Karnataka—for a particular site at Holalkere town in Chitradurga district. The order, passed on September 19 by a bench of Justice Sachin Shankar Magadum, was recently made public.

In this case, the petitioner had bought the property in question with a sale deed from 2010, submitting that local authorities had issued a manual khata in 2015. However,

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