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W.P(C)No.19953 of 2024 is filed alleging that the 5th respondent put up hoarding in front of the building wherein the petitioner is conducting business without obtaining permission from the Grama Panchayat or the National Highway Authority. The writ petition seeks a direction to respondents 1 and 2 to remove the unauthorised advertisement board erected by the 5th respondent in the property comprised in Re.Sy.No.143/3 in Block No.47 of Alkkaranad North Village, as the same was put up without any permission from the Grama Panchayat.

2. A counter afÏdavit has been filed by the 1st and 2nd respondents Panchayat, submitting that that no permit has been obtained from the Grama Panchayat. The National Highway Authority has also filed a counter stating that, for the violation of any of the provisions of the Panchayat Raj Act, it is for the Panchayat to take remedial action.

3. W.P.(C)No.25348 of 2024 is filed by the 5th respondent in W.P.(C)No.19953 of 2024, for a declaration that Rules 23 and 26 of the Kerala Panchayat Building Rules, 2019, cannot be invoked by the Panchayat in case of erection of any advertisement in the private property of the owner/lessee and also for qua