JUDGMENT

Admit. Government Pleader takes notice for the respondents.

2. The 1st petitioner is a partnership firm and petitioners 2 & 3 are two of its partners. The prayers in the writ petition are to quash Ext.P8 order and for a direction to the respondents to carry out mutation of the properties of the 1st petitioner firm to the extent of 1.80 Ares in Resurvey No.399/62, 12.62 Ares in Resurvey No.399/2-2 and 1.29 Ares in Resurvey No.399/63/2 in Block No.26 of Kalady Village, Aluva Taluk, in the name of the petitioner firm. The case of the petitioners is that as per Ext.P1 partnership deed, the petitioner firm was constituted by its partners. As capital contribution of the petitioners 2 & 3 they had brought in the properties shown in Schedules A, B & C of the partnership deed and the right to access to the above through properties shown in D & E schedules. It is submitted that the above properties have thus become the partnership properties. Petitioners had applied for mutation of the properties in the name of the firm as per Ext.P4 application. The Village Officer referred the application to the Tahsildar by letter dated 25.02.2022 produced as Ext.P5. The Tahsildar returned the file