JUDGMENT :

This writ petition is filed seeking the following prayers:

“(i) Issue a writ of certiorari or any other appropriate writ calling for the records relating to Exhibit P4 & P5 and quash the same.

(ii) Issue a writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ, order or direction commanding the 3rd respondent to calculate the fees for the purpose of Section 27 of the Kerala Conservation of Paddy Land and Wetland Act by taking the fair value prevailed as on 26.10.2019 in resurvey No.97/2 of Kaarikode Village.

(iii) Declare that the Petitioner is entitled for exemption upto 25 cents and need to pay fees only for the remaining extent of land.”

2. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Government Pleader.

3. It is submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner is the owner in possession of 14.57 Ares of property in Re-Survey No.97/2 of Kaarikode Village in Thodupuzha Taluk. It is submitted that the petitioner had made an application for using the property for other purposes in Form 6 under Section 27A of the Kerala Conservation of Paddy Land and Wetland Act, 2008 (hereinafter referred as ‘the Act’) on 26.10.2019. The Village Officer had subm