JUDGMENT

This writ petition is filed seeking the following reliefs:

“(i) Issue a writ of certiorari or any other appropriate writ, order, or direction quashing Exhibit P3 proceedings dated 19.10.2024 in File No. 2203/2024 passed by the 2^nd Respondent;

(ii) Issue a writ of mandamus or other appropriate writ, order, or direction directing the 2^nd Respondent to reconsider the Petitioner’s Form-5 application, in the light of Exhibit P4 order and the actual ground realities, and to pass orders excluding the Petitioner’s property from the Data Bank within a time-bound period;

(iii) To dispense with filing of the translation of Vernacular Documents.

(iv) Allow the Writ petition with costs.

(v) To grant such other reliefs as this Hon’ble Court may deem fit and proper 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 the petitioner 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