JUDGMENT

This writ petition is filed with following prayers:

“i. Issue a writ of mandamus directing the 1st respondent -Panchayat to sanction building numbers to the 1st and 2nd floor of the building.

ii. Issue such other order or direction, as this Hon’ble Court deem fit and proper.” (sic)

2. When this writ petition came up for consideration, the counsel for the national high way authority and the counsel for the petitioner submitted that a portion of the building is already demolished in connection with the acquisition for national highway- NH 66. The counsel for the petitioner submitted that the ground floor of the building was constructed in the year 1998 and the building number is obtained much earlier. Therefore, the provisions of the Kerala Conservation of Paddy Land and Wetland Act , 2008 (for short ‘2008 Act’) is not applicable. The counsel also submitted that this Court directed to give provisional number to the 1st and 2nd floor of the building as per order dated 07.4.2021 and the 1st respondent has not complied the same stating that only unauthorised building number will be given.

3. In the light of the fact that a portion of the building is already demolished for acquisiti