New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday asked the Law Commission to explore using blockchain technology for making the country’s land records transparent, tamper-proof and easily accessible, in a first-of-its-kind ruling that can fundamentally reform the nation’s land registration process.

In the forward-looking judgment, the court turned a routine case on property registration in Bihar into a broader examination of the country’s outdated and convoluted real estate system. It expressed deep concern over the “traumatic” experience of buying and selling property.

The judgment arose from a challenge to amendments made by the Bihar government to the Registration Rules, 2008, which effectively made property registration conditional upon land mutation. The court used this case not only to strike

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