JUDGMENT

This writ petition is filed seeking the following reliefs: “i) “Call for the records leading to the issuance of Exhibit P3 order dated 24.06.2025 issued by the 2nd respondent and quash the same by the issuance of a writ of Certiorari or any other appropriate writ, order or direction;

ii) Issue a writ of Mandamus or any other appropriate writ, order or direction commanding the 2nd respondent to reconsider the petitioner’s Form 5 application afresh, taking into consideration the report of the 4th respondent (Village Officer) and the KSREC report (Exhibit P4), within a time limit to be fixed by this Hon’ble Court;

iii) Declare that the petitioner’s property having been converted much prior to 2008 is not a paddy land and is liable to be removed from the data bank maintained under the Kerala Conservation of Paddy Land and Wetland Act, 2008 ;

iv) To dispense with the filing of translation of vernacular documents.

v) Issue such other writ, order or direction as this Honourable 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 him under the Kera