JUDGMENT

This writ petition is filed seeking the following reliefs:

“i) Call for the records leading to Ext.P5 dated 23.1.2024 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 Ext.P4 in Form 5 application taking into consideration the KSREC report 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 extending to of 6.7 Ares of property in Survey No. 741/1-20 of Ayyanthole Village, Thrissur Taluk, Thrissur District is not a paddy land and is liable to be excluded from the data bank.

iv) Dispense with filing of translation of vernacular documents.

v) Issue such other appropriate writ, order or direction which this Hon’ble Court may deem fit in the circumstances of the case.”

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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 grievance of t