JUDGMENT

This writ petition is filed seeking the following reliefs:

“i) a) call for the records leading to Exhibit P5 and quash the same by issuing a writ of certiorari or other appropriate writ, order or direction;

b) Declare that the property covered by Ext. P1 is not paddy lands as defined under section 2(XII) of the Kerala Conservation of Paddy and Wet Land Act and is liable to be excluded from the data bank and direct the 1 st respondent to remove the property from data bank;

c) to direct the 1st respondent to reconsider Form 5 application after considering all the relevant materials and after obtaining KSREC report. ” [SIC]

2. The petitioner is aggrieved by the order passed by the 1^st respondent rejecting the Form–5 application submitted by her under the Kerala Conservation of Paddy Land and Wetland Rules, 2008 (‘Rules’, for brevity). The main grievance of the petitioner is that the authorised officer has not considered the contentions of the petitioner.

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

4. This Court perused the impugned order. I am of the considered opinion that the authorised officer has failed to comply with the statutory requi