JUDGMENT

This writ petition is filed seeking the following reliefs:

“i) Issue a writ of certiorari calling for the records leading to Ext. P2 order and quash the same.

ii) Issue a writ of mandamus or any other writ, order or direction directing the 2nd respondent or the officer authorized under section 2(XVA) of the Act to reconsider petitioner’s Form 5 application and pass orders afresh after properly considering Ext. P3 KSREC report.

iii) Issue a writ of mandamus or any other writ, order or direction directing the 2nd respondent or the officer authorized under section 2(XVA) of the Act to reconsider petitioner’s Form 5 application and pass orders afresh after obtaining KSREC report with regard to the petitioner’s property in Survey Nos. 289/6-3-2 and 289/5-

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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”

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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 gr