New Delhi, Jan. 23 -- The Supreme Court on Thursday underlined the need for digitising land records using blockchain technology to minimise forgery in property transactions and urged the Centre and state governments to take up this much-needed reform. A bench of justices Rajesh Bindal and Manmohan said, "This court deems it necessary to suggest to the Union and state governments the urgent need for the digitization of registered documents and land records using secure, tamper-proof technologies such as blockchain." The bench said that according to experts, blockchain refers to a shared, digital record book (ledger) system to ensure that once a transaction of a sale or mortgage or like nature is recorded, it becomes "immutable and cryptograp...