JUDGMENT

The petitioner has approached this Court aggrieved by Ext.P5 order whereby Form 5 application submitted by him has been rejected by the 2^nd respondent.

2. The petitioner is the owner in possession of

1 Are 21.5 Sqm of property in Sy.No.240/8-21 of Perumanna Village, Malappuram District. The petitioner states that the property will not come within the ambit of paddy land or wet land as defined under the Kerala Conservation of Paddy Land and Wetland Act, 2008 (for short, ‘the Act, 2008’). However, the property has been wrongly included in the Data Bank. The petitioner filed Ext.P3 application in Form 5 under Rule 4(d) of the Kerala Conservation of Paddy Land and Wetland Rules, 2008 (for short, ‘the Rules’) before the 2^nd respondent to remove the said land from the Data Bank. The same has been rejected by the 2^nd respondent by Ext.P5 stating that as per the report of the Agricultural Officer, though there is no cultivation at present, the subject property is paddy land and a house construction is going