How to check mutation (Dakhil Kharij) status online

The two screens, and which one you want

This trips up almost everyone, and no guide covers it clearly. Banglarbhumi has two mutation status lookups with nearly identical names, sitting in different menus with different access rules.

Mutation Case Status is the case-number lookup. Give it a case or application number and it tells you where that application has reached. This is the one you want if you simply need to track a case — and it works whoever filed it, including a mutation lodged over the counter at the BL&LRO rather than online.

Mutation Status, under Online Service Status, is the account-holder's own view. That whole menu is tied to your account and lists the applications *you* submitted through the portal. It is the right screen if you applied online yourself and want your own submissions listed — but it is not the way to track a bare case number, and it will not help at all if the mutation was filed at the office rather than through your portal account.

Have your banglarbhumi.gov.in sign-in ready either way. The portal's record lookups need a signed-in session, and it does not say so up front: the District and Block dropdowns populate perfectly well while you are signed out, so the requirement only surfaces when you press search. Sign in before you start rather than discovering it halfway through.

• Mutation Case Status — search any case by its case or application number
• Mutation Status (under Online Service Status) — your own online applications, tied to your account
• Mutation Plot Khatian Status also exists under Online Service Status. It concerns the Khatian and plot outcome of a mutation rather than the case's progress

What Dakhil Kharij actually is

Mutation — Dakhil Kharij in Bengali usage — is the step where the land records are updated to show the new holder after a transfer. Registering a deed and mutating the record are two different acts by two different offices, and this is the most consequential misunderstanding in West Bengal land transactions.

Registration records that a transfer happened. Mutation updates the revenue record so the department bills, recognises and lists you as the holder. A registered deed with no mutation leaves the Khatian still showing the seller, which is exactly how a plot you bought years ago still comes back under someone else's name in a Banglarbhumi search.

Mutation is also required after inheritance, where it usually follows a succession or Warish process, and after a partition among co-sharers.

What you need before you look it up

The status lookup is keyed on the case, not on you, so the number is the thing that matters. Without it the screen cannot help, however well you are signed in.

Your case or application number will be on the acknowledgement you were given when the application was filed — the receipt from the BL&LRO office, or the confirmation from an online submission. Keep it: it is the only key you have.

• The mutation case / application number, copied exactly including any year or office prefix and any leading zeros
• The District and Block the land sits in, since the lookup narrows by office
• Your Mouza name and JL number, useful for cross-checking the Khatian afterwards

Reading the result: the shape of a mutation case

The status screen reports where the case has reached in the office's workflow. Rather than memorising an exact list of stage names — which vary in wording and are not worth guessing at — it is more useful to understand the shape the process takes, because that tells you what a given status implies about the wait ahead.

Broadly, a mutation case moves through three phases. It is received and recorded at the office, which is when the case number becomes searchable. It is then examined — documents checked, and where the law requires it, notice given to interested parties so objections can be raised and heard. Finally it is decided, and if allowed, the record is corrected and the updated Khatian published.

Two practical consequences follow. First, the middle phase is where a case can sit longest, because it may depend on a notice period or on someone else responding. Second, a case can show as decided before the updated Khatian appears in a record search, since publishing the corrected record is a separate step from ordering it.

• A status that names a receiving or recording stage means the file exists but has not yet been worked
• A status that names examination, notice, hearing or objection means the case is live and may be waiting on a period or a party, not on an officer
• A status indicating disposal means a decision has been made — check the Khatian itself, and allow for the record update to follow
• A status indicating rejection or return means something was missing or contested; the office can tell you what, and it usually needs a fresh or corrected filing

The status hasn't moved in weeks

This is the most common reason people search for mutation status a second time, and it is worth separating the causes before assuming neglect.

The most frequent is simply that the case is in a phase that has a waiting period built into it. A notice or objection window is time that has to pass; nothing in the record will change while it does.

The second is a document gap. If something submitted was illegible, unsigned, or inconsistent with the deed, the file stalls quietly and often without any online signal. Only the office can tell you this, and it is the single most valuable question to ask when you visit.

The third is a contested case. If an objection was filed, the case moves at the pace of a hearing rather than a queue.

The fourth is not a stall at all — a mis-typed case number returns nothing, or returns someone else's case, and people read that as no progress. Check the number character by character against your acknowledgement, including leading zeros and any prefix, before concluding anything.

After the mutation is allowed

A decided case is not the end of the sequence. Two things are worth doing once the status shows disposal.

Check the record itself through the Know Your Property search, using the Mouza and your Khatian or Dag number. The name, share and area should now reflect the new holding. If they do not, allow for the publication step, then ask the office — a mutation ordered but not reflected is a records question, not a re-application.

Then check the plot-level outcome. Mutation frequently changes the Khatian structure rather than just a name: a plot may be split between holders, or a new Khatian created. The portal exposes Mutation Plot Khatian Status under Online Service Status for this, which lists it against your own applications; a plot search through Know Your Property or RS-LR Plot Information shows the resulting position for any holding, whoever filed the case. Both routes want you signed in.

Doing this repeatedly, and where an app helps

Mutation cases take time, so checking status is rarely a one-off. On the portal each check means re-selecting the location dropdowns and clearing a fresh CAPTCHA — the CAPTCHA is issued per search, not per session — which is a lot of friction for a lookup you may repeat weekly for months.

Bhumir Tathya is our own app — free, unofficial, Android — and it presents these lookups as native screens in Bengali and English, keeping records you have already viewed readable offline. It does not bypass any government authentication and cannot: it signs in with your own banglarbhumi.gov.in account, so you need one exactly as you would on the site. What it removes is the repetition, not the requirement.