JUDGMENT

This writ petition is filed seeking the following reliefs:

“i. Issue a writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ, order or direction directing the respondents to properly construct the public drain by the side of the Ettumanoor-Pala- Poonjar State Highway so as to prevent drain water from the road flowing into the property of the petitioner comprised in resurvey Nos. 127/2, 127/3, 127/5 and 127/10 of Block No. 15 of Kidangoor Village of Meenachil Taluk of Kottayam District.

ii. Petitioner may be permitted to dispense with the filing of translation of the vernacular documents.

iii. Issue any other appropriate writ, order or direction that this Honourable Court deems just and necessary in the circumstances of the case.

And iv. Allow costs.”[SIC]

2. A counter affidavit is filed by the 4th respondent in this case. It will be better to extract the relevant portion of the same:

“2. It is submitted that PWD Roads wing constructed a dry rubble protection wall and an open drain by the side of Ettumanoor- Poonjar S