While upgrading to an A-Khata is a highly beneficial administrative step for your property's value, loans, and building sanctions, it does not act as a legal document to settle boundary overlaps or prove title ownership over disputed land

2) The Survey Settlement and Land Records (SSLR) department explicitly mandates that Dishank maps are only for basic orientation and consumer due diligence—they cannot be used as legal evidence to claim encroachment

3) You have a registered Sale Deed from 2007 and have been paying property tax uninterruptedly for 20 years on Survey No. 45. Continuous, undisputed possession for over 12 years strongly protects you under Indian law against sudden eviction or land grabbing.

Your Encumbrance Certificate verifies that no prior legal claims or mortgages exist on your paper title

Getting an A-Katha will not automatically fix a revenue boundary dispute, and paying ₹3.5 Lakhs right now for A-Katha will not guarantee legal safety against the neighboring landowner's claim.

Under Karnataka Land Revenue laws, a Katha (whether B-Katha, A-Katha, or e-Katha) is an entry in municipal records maintained by BBMP/local bodies strictly to assess and collect property tax. The Karnataka High Court has repeatedly held that a Katha is neither a document of title nor proof of exact revenue boundaries.

Since your plot is in an unapproved layout, the local municipal authority (BBMP/Panchayat) registered the sites based on private layout plans submitted by the developer, not based on an official revenue demarcation survey.

The Karnataka State Remote Sensing Applications Centre (KSRSAC) built Dishank by overlaying historic revenue village maps over satellite imagery. The app explicitly carries a disclaimer that its data is for spatial identification only and cannot be used in a court of law.

Unapproved layout developers often construct layout boundaries encroaching slightly into adjoining agricultural survey numbers or place plots on land where the boundary was never formally demarcated by a Revenue Inspector.

If your registered 2007 Sale Deed lists explicit physical boundaries (e.g., East by: 30ft Road, West by: Site No. 44, North by: Plot 12, South by: Survey 46 boundary), the physical schedule boundaries mentioned in the deed prevail over survey area discrepancies.   

Do not pay the ₹3.5 Lakhs fee until the boundary issue is cleared. If the neighboring landowner obtains a court stay or files a revenue dispute, your A-Katha process could get entangled or frozen in municipal litigations.

Since ~10 border plots are affected, do not handle this alone. Join forces with all 10 site owners (and the layout association/developer if accessible) to pool legal resources.

Do Not Rely Solely on Revenue Officials to Settle Title

Revenue officials (Tahsildar/Surveyors) can only measure survey numbers on paper; they cannot dispossess you or cancel your registered Sale Deed. Only a Civil Court has the jurisdiction to decide property possession and title disputes.

1. Get the survey done for the land in question by a Government Surveyor and get the hudbust done, so that both you and the owner of survey number 46 would have the clear picture and act upon that.

2.  After getting the survey done and boundary fixed only, get the Khatha changed from 'B' to 'A' for your plot.