JUDGMENT

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

" i. Call for records leading to Ext.P3 and Ext. P6 and issue a writ in the nature of certiorari quashing Ext.P3 and Ext. P6.

ii. Issue a writ in the nature of mandamus commanding the respondents to give custody of the JCB excavator having registration No.KL.13-AA-7729 taken to custody as per Ext.P3 to the petitioner within such time as may be fixed by this Hon’ble Court.

iii. To declare that the confiscation proceedings of the respondents under section 3 of the Paddy Land and Wet Land Act 2008 and following Ext. P6 order passed by the 1^st respondent under Section 20 of the Kerala Conservation of Paddy Land and Wet Land Act, 2008 are ultravires and unsustainable in law since the land in Re Sy No. 51/110 situated in Chembilode Grama Panchayat has not been included in the Ext. P5 Data Bank.

iv. Award cost of this proceedings to the petitioner."

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2. Petitioner is aggrieved by Ext.P6 order passed in accordance with Section 20 of the Kerala Conservation of Paddy Land and Wet Land Act, 2008 (for short Act 2008), by which a vehicle is c