JUDGMENT

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

“i) Call for the records leading to Ext.P4 dated 1.11.2024 and quash the same by issuing a writ of certiorari finding that it is illegal.

ii) issue a writ of mandamus or other appropriate writ, order or direction, directing the 2nd respondent to reconsider and pass orders on Ext.P3 in Form 5 application taking into consideration the KSREC report as well as Village Officers report after affording an opportunity of being heard to the petitioner, within a time limit fixed by this Hon’ble Court.

iii) Declare that the property of the petitioner lying in 6.89 Ares of land lying in Sy No.110/1-3, of Thiruvaniyoor Village in Kunnathunad Taluk in Block No. 41 Ernakulam District is not a paddy land and is liable to be excluded from the data bank.

iv) Dispense with filing of translation of vernacular documents.

v) issue such other appropriate writ, order or direction which this Hon’ble Court may deem fit in the circumstances of the case.”

2. The petitioner filed a Form 5 application in accordance with the Kerala Conservation of Paddy Land And Wet Land Act , 2008, for removing his land from the data bank. The same was rejected