JUDGMENT

The above writ petition is filed with the following orders:

i) Call for the records leading to Ext.P7 dated 6.2.2025 and quash the same by issuing a writ of certiorari finding that it is illegal.

ii) issue a writ of mandamus or other appropriate writ, order or direction, directing the 6th respondent to reconsider and pass orders on Form 5 application on the basis of Ext.P5 & P6 report of Agricultural Officer and KSREC after conducting a site inspection and after affording an opportunity of being heard to the petitioner, within a time limit fixed by this Hon’ble Court.

iii) Declare that the property of the petitioner lying in in 16.19 Ares of property comprised in Re.Sy 192/30, in block No.38 in Marutharoad Village in Palakkad Taluk in Palakkad District is not a paddy land and is liable to be excluded from the data bank.

iv) issue such other appropriate writ, order or direction which this Hon’ble Court may deem fit in the circumstances of the case.” [sic]

2. The petitioner is aggrieved by the order passed by the 2^nd 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