JUDGMENT

This writ petition is filed seeking the following reliefs:

“i) issue a Writ of Certiorari or any other appropriate writ, order or direction to quash Ext.P3 order issued by the 1^st respondent, after calling for the records leading to its issuance and allow the application filed by the petitioner;

ii) issue such other reliefs as this Hon’ble Court may deem fit and proper in the facts and circumstances of the case; &

iii) petitioner also prays that this Hon’ble Court may be pleased to dispense with production of translation of the documents produced in vernacular language.”[SIC]

2. The petitioner is aggrieved by Ext.P3 order passed by the 1^st respondent rejecting the Form–5 application submitted by him 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 requirements. The impugned order was passed by