JUDGMENT

The above Writ Petition (C) is filed with the following prayers:

"i) Issue a writ of certiorari calling for the records leading to Ext. P5 order and quash the same.

ii) Issue a Writ of Mandamus or any other appropriate writ, order or direction directing the 3^rd respondent to reconsider the petitioners’ Form 5 application afresh in accordance with law, strictly adverting to the KSREC report (Ext.P6) and the observations in Ext.P4 judgment, within a time frame to be fixed by this Hon’ble Court;

iii) direct the respondents to remove the petitioners’ property comprised in Re-Survey No.72/1 (Old Survey No.288/3-2) of Kalady Village, Ponnani Taluk, Malappuram District, having an extent of 6 Ares 8.66 Sqm, from the Data Bank maintained under the Kerala Conservation of Paddy Land and Wetland Act, 2008 .

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 petitioners filed a Form – 5 application in accordance with the Kerala Conservation of Paddy Land and Wetland Rules, 2008 (‘Rules’, for brevity). The same was rejected as per Ex