JUDGMENT :

S.MANIKUMAR, J.

Being aggrieved by the judgment dated 10.1.2020 in Writ Petition No.234 of 2020, appellants/writ petitioners have filed instant writ appeal. Challenge raised in the writ petition is that seizure and detention of vehicles and earth remover for the alleged extraction and transportation of ordinary earth unauthorizedly from the property of one Mohammed Faris, Marekkara comprised in R.S.No.S.80/1C-2.2, is illegal.

2. Learned Single Judge, after considering the rival submissions, dismissed the writ petition, relevant portion of which reads thus:

“2. The learned Government Pleader points out that by virtue of Rule 14 (1) and (2) of the amended proviso the owner WP(C).No.234 OF 2020(D) 3 of the land shall obtain minerals transit passes for the quantity to be transported. The petitioners ought not to have accepted the contract for transporting of the earth, as the owner did not have the transit passes and the petitioner has an alternate remedy under Rule 27 of Kerala Minerals (Prevention of illegal Mining, Storage and Transportation) Rules, 2015.

3. I have heard the learned counsel for the parties. It would be difficult of things to extract Rule 14 (1) and (2) along w