JUDGMENT

This writ petition is filed seeking the following reliefs:

“a) Issue a writ of certiorari or such other writ, direction or order quashing the Exhibit P3 & P7 orders as arbitrary and illegal;

b) Issue a writ of mandamus or such other writ, direction or order directing the 2nd respondent to comply with the Exhibit P2 order; accepting the conversion charges from the petitioner and to change the status of land in revenue records as purayidom within a specified time, that the Hon’ble court deems fit;

c) Issue such other writ, direction or order as is deemed just and necessary in the facts and circumstances of the case.”

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2. When this writ petition came up for consideration, the counsel for the petitioner limited his challenge to Ext.P7 order. Ext.P7 is an order passed by the 2^nd respondent rejecting the Form–5 application submitted by the petitioner under the Kerala Conservation of Paddy Land and Wetland Rules, 2008 (‘Rules’, for brevity). The main grievance of the petitioner is that the authorised officer has not considered the contentions of the petitioner.

3. Heard, the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Government Pleader.

4. This Court perused the impugned