ORDER :

1. The petitioner is before this Court seeking the following reliefs:

(a) Issue a Writ of Certiorari quashing the impugned endorsement dated 13/10/2022 passed by Respondent No. 4/Town Municipal Council, Bailhongal bearing No. BLH-BL-52-2022-23 vide Annexure-G; in the alternative.

(b) Issue a Writ of Mandamus directing the Respondent No. 2/Deputy Commissioner to positively consider the application filed by the Petitioner dated 18/05/2023 vide Annexure-H.

(c) Pass any such other orders as this Hon’ble Court may deem fit to meet the ends of justice and equity.

2. The petitioner’s father was the original owner of land bearing R.S. No. 392/4 measuring 1 acre 29 guntas, situated at Bailahongal, Taluk and District-Belagavi. The father of the petitioner applied for conversion of land from agriculture to non-agriculture purposes. As regards which, an official memorandum dated 31.03.2016 came to be issued permitting conversion of the land from agriculture to non-agricultural commercial (petrol pump) purposes on 30.03.2016.

3. The petitioner established a petrol pump on a portion of the property measuring 14,436.30 sq. ft. and proposed to use the balance land for putting up commercial build