J U D G M E N T

The petitioner has filed the captioned writ petition pointing out the requirement for tiling a portion measuring 2.4m x 1.6m during the reconstruction of the 'Unniyambalam –

Chakkamthara' road, undertaken by the respondents herein.

2. I have heard Sri.T. Kabil Chandran, the learned counsel for the petitioner, Sri.Rajesh Sivaramankutty, the learned counsel for the 8^th respondent, as well as the learned counsel for the 6^th respondent – Panchayath.

3. The case set up by the petitioner is to the effect that the road in question has been tiled, leaving a portion untiled, and that portion also requires to be tiled so as to complete the road. The 8^th respondent has sought himself to be impleaded in the writ petition and he has pointed out through his counsel that, though a civil suit was instituted by a third party, who is related to the petitioner herein, pointing out that the portion forming subject matter of this writ petition is forming part of the public road, the said contention was not accepted by the civil court. Subsequently, the petitioner has also produced the judgment in O.S. No.230 of 2016 of the Additional Munsiff's Court, Cherthala, dismissing the suit institu