JUDGMENT

This writ petition is filed with the following prayers :-

“(i) issue a writ of certiorari calling for the records leading to Ext.P6 and to quash the same.

(ii) issue a writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ directing the second respondent to reconsider Ext.P2 application and pass fresh orders as expeditiously as possible within a time frame fixed by the Hon’ble Court.

(iii) issue a writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ or order directing the second respondent to allow Ext.P2 joint application submitted by the petitioners for renal transplantation forthwith.”

2. The 1^st petitioner is diagnosed with chronic kidney disease currently in stage ‘V’. He was advised to undergo urgent renal replacement therapy. Though an application was filed before the District Level Authorization Committee for Transplantation of Human Organs, Thrissur, along with a donor/neighbor of the 1st petitioner, the same was rejected on suspicion of commercial dealings behind the human organ donation. The appeal filed by the 1