JUDGMENT

The above writ petition is filed with following prayers : i) "Issue a writ of certiorari or any other appropriate writ, order or direction to quash Exhibit P4 order of the 2nd respondent.

ii) Issue a Writ of Mandamus or any other appropriate Writ, order or direction directing the 2nd respondent or the officer authorised under Section 2(XVA) of ‘ The Kerala Conservation of Paddy Land and Wet Land Act, 2008 ’ to re- consider Exhibit P3 Form 6 application filed by the petitioner, after calling forward the satellite maps and fresh reports, and also after hearing the petitioner, within a time frame fixed by this Hon’ble Court.

iii) Issue a writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ, order or direction, directing the 4th respondent Village Officer to give sufficient reports required under the Act and the Rules to the 2nd respondent or the officer authorised under Section 2(XVA) of the Act, without further delay.

iv) Issue a Writ of Mandamus or any other appropriate Writ, order or direction directing the 2nd respondent to declare that the petitioner’s property is not suitable for paddy cultivation and has to be removed from the data bank.

v) Dispense with the filing of the tra