JUDGMENT

The above Writ Petition (C) is filed with the following prayers:

"(A) Call for the records leading to Exhibit.P5 and quash the same by means of writ of certiorari or any other writ order or direction.

(B ) Issue of writ mandamus or any other writ in the like nature, direction or order commanding the 1^st respondent to allow Exhibit P4 application of the petitioner made in Form 5 under “Act 28/2008” by excluding the property from the land data bank in the light of the judgment passed by this honourable court in Vinumon C Vs. The District Collector and Others, in W.P. (C) No.

984 of 2025.

(D) Allow the cost of this proceeding."

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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