JUDGMENT

This Writ Petition (C) is filed seeking the following reliefs:

" (i) call for the records leading to the passing of Ext.P4 by the 1^st respondent and quash the same by the issue of a writ of certiorari or other appropriate writ, order or direction;

(ii) issue a writ in the nature of mandamus directing respondents 1 and 2 to reconsider Ext- P3 application submitted by the petitioner in Form No.5 of the Act after putting him on notice and affording to him an opportunity of being heard and obtaining appropriate inputs from the KSREC;

(iii) issue a writ in the nature of mandamus directing the 1^st respondent to correct the erroneous entries in the data bank by deleting the petitioner’s property mentioned in Ext.P1 from the data bank."

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

1^st 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 the petitioner is that the authorised officer has not considered the contentions of the petitioner. The counsel for the petitioner submitted that Ext.P2 Kerala Land Utilisation Order is also available as far as t