Editorial Policy

Every article begins with primary-source research, not generic web scraping. We pull from:

• IGR Odisha — the office manual and fee schedules at igrodisha.gov.in are the authoritative source for SRO offices, EC fees, and stamp duty rates.
• Bhulekh Odisha — bhulekh.ori.nic.in for ROR / Khatian formats, mutation status pipelines, and district-level land records.
• State legislation — direct citations to the Odisha Land Reforms Act 1960 (especially Sections 22 and 23), the Indian Registration Act 1908, and the Indian Stamp Act 1899 as adapted by Odisha.
• Reputable Odisha news outlets — OdishaTV, Sambad, Pragativadi, OrissaPOST, Daily Pioneer — for case studies and recent fraud incidents. We anonymise victims and replace names with role-based placeholders.
• Court precedents — Orissa High Court online portal and Indian Kanoon for title-dispute and mutation-related judgments, cited by case name + year + court.

The citations from each post's research stage are stored in our database and rendered as a citation array in the page's Article structured-data so crawlers and AI engines can verify the trail.

Every article is published under one of three bylines: Anant Mohanty, Managing Editor — Title Research, or one of two house desks, BhoomiScan Research Team and BhoomiScan Editorial. A desk byline names the desk, not a person. No article is attributed to a person who does not exist, and no article claims a credential, a count of cases or a client for its author. We do not impersonate OAB-registered advocates or claim bar council numbers we do not hold.

If a piece concerns a specific transaction or pending matter and you need certified legal advice, you should consult an OAB-registered Odisha advocate. BhoomiScan's Professional Title Opinion is written and signed by an empanelled Odisha advocate.

Every article under a desk byline names its reviewer, Anant Mohanty: "Reviewed by Anant Mohanty" on the page, and the article's reviewedBy in its structured data. Articles under his own byline are his. The review covers:

• Government source URLs cited in the article exist and resolve at publish time.
• Fee schedules, deadlines, and section references are current as of the article's last updated date.
• Case studies are anonymised per our news-source policy.
• The article does not make uncertified legal claims about a specific named property or party.

Land law and SRO infrastructure change. We re-audit:

• EC and stamp-duty fee schedules — annually, and within 30 days of any IGR Odisha notification.
• SRO and Tahasildar office lists — quarterly against the IGR Odisha office manual.
• Case-study URLs — automated weekly link-rot check; broken citations are replaced or the case study is removed.
• Deadline references — when the Odisha Government Gazette publishes a notification touching the OLR Act / Mutation Rules / Stamp Act, the relevant articles are flagged for rewrite within 14 days.

Each article shows a last updated date in the page metadata. The same date is exposed as dateModified in the Article structured-data.

If you find an error of fact in any BhoomiScan article — an outdated SRO address, an incorrect fee, a misread section — email contact@bhoomiscan.in with the article URL and the error. We respond within two working days, fix verified errors within 5 working days, and append a dated corrections note to the article when the change is material.

BhoomiScan uses large language models in the drafting pipeline (Google Gemini, Cerebras, Mistral). A statistic appears in an article only with its primary source — a court order, a gazette, a government department or a named news report — linked in the same sentence, and a draft that states a figure without one is refused before it is published. In September 2026 we removed the unsourced figures that earlier articles carried. AI is used for: drafting prose from primary-source research, formatting content into FAQ / HowTo blocks, and generating the TL;DR block at the top of each article. Citations link the URLs captured during research.

We disclose this because we believe transparency about AI assistance matters more than pretending an article is hand-written when it has machine assistance — especially in legal content where readers deserve to know which signals are verifiable and which are editorial judgement.