Published: June 4, 2026 • 12:09 PM IST · Updated: June 4, 2026 • 2:11 PM ISTBy TheBriefWire Editorial Team
Key points
Khata certificate Property Card Mutation certificate When you buy a piece of land or an apartment in India, the seller hands over the keys, the agreement is registered, and you may believe that the property is yours.
Legally, it is, but in the records of the local municipal body, it might still belong to the person you bought it from.This gap between ownership on paper and ownership in government records is bridged by the khata, mutation, and property card.
However, they are not the same document and perform different functions.A khata is an account that a municipal body maintains for a property.
It records who is responsible for paying property tax on that address.
A khata tells the municipal body that a particular person is the assessed owner for the purpose of taxation.