JUDGMENT :

Since common issue is raised, both the writ petitions are heard together and are being disposed of by this common judgment.

2. W.P.(C)No.40465 of 2018:- The petitioner is stated to be the owner in possession of 2.64 Ares of property at Kallumthazham Junction, in Sy.No.760/1/8 of Kilikolloor Village, covered by Ext.P1 tax receipt. The petitioner has filed this writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, seeking a writ of mandamus commanding respondents 1 to 4 to take necessary action against the 6th respondent for illegal erection of flex board. The petitioner has also sought for a writ of mandamus commanding the 4th respondent Secretary of Kollam Corporation to consider and pass orders on Ext.P5 complaint dated 10.12.2018, within a time frame that this Court may consider reasonable; and a writ of mandamus commanding the 4th respondent to remove the flex board erected by the 6th respondent illegally, in the property of the 5th respondent. (The name of the 6th respondent, who is the petitioner in W.P. (C)No.5618 of 2019 is wrongly shown in the cause t