JUDGMENT

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

" i. To issue a Writ of certiorari or any other appropriate writ, order, or direction, quashing Ext P5 and P6 Orders as unjust and illegal; ii. To issue a Writ of certiorari or any other appropriate writ or, order or direction, quashing Exhibit P2 to the extent to which, the land of the petitioner is included as paddy land in the Data Bank prepared by the 5^th respondent;

iii. To declare the land in question does not fall under the purview of a paddy land or wet land defined in the Act and therefore liable to be removed from the Data Bank Register;

iv. To issue a writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ, order, or direction, commanding the 4^th respondent to pass fresh orders removing the entries regarding the petitioner’s property from the Data Bank Register and to publish an erratum notification in Kerala Gazette for the same;

v. Award cost."

[SIC]

2. Petitioner filed a Form-5 application in accordance with the Kerala Conservation of Paddy Land and Wet Land Act , 2008. The application was rejected as per Ext.P5 by non-speaking order. Petitioner challenged the same by filing WP(C) No.19604/2023.

This Court set