JUDGMENT :

This Writ Petition was filed seeking the following reliefs:

(i). Call for the records leading to the order passed by the Police Department by G.O.(Rt) No.747/1987 dated 14.05.1987 and Order No.B5 46329/87 dated 21.07.1987 of District Collector, Thrissur, and issue a writ of certiorari or any other writ, order or direction, quashing the same.

(ii). Issue a writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ, order or direction, directing the 5th respondent, District Collector, Thrissur, to produce order, G.O.(Rt) No.747/1987 dated 14.5.1987 and Order No.B5 46329/87 dated 21.07.1987.

(iii). Declare that the action of the District Collector in assigning the land for police department is contrary to the provisions under S.96(1)(ii)(a) of the Land Reforms Act and hence ab initio void,

(iv). Pass such other appropriate writ, order or direction as the Hon’ble court may deem fit and proper in the facts and circumstances of the case,

(v). Award costs.

2. The matter is related to allotting a land by the Government for the Police Department. This land, admittedly, a land surrendered pursuant to the ceiling proceedings initiated under the Kerala Land Reforms Act, 1963 (for short, the ‘Act’). T