JUDGMENT

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

" i. To issue a writ of Certiorari or any other appropriate writ, order or direction call for records leading to exhibit P5 and quash the same.

ii. To issue a writ of Mandamus or any other appropriate writ, order or direction by directing the 2^nd respondent to reconsider the Form 5 application submitted by the petitioner on settled legal position.

iii. To issue any other appropriate writ, order or direction which this Hon’ble Court may deem fit and proper in the facts and circumstances of the case so as to secure the ends of Justice.

iv. Petitioner also pray that this Hon’ble Court may be pleased to dispense with the translation of the documents produced in the vernacular language."

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2. The petitioner is aggrieved by the order passed by the 2^nd respondent rejecting the Form–5 application submitted by him 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