IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE S.SIRI JAGAN TUESDAY, THE 22ND JULY 2008 / 31ST ASHADHA 1930 WP(C).No. 22006 of 2008(T) ------------------------------------ PETITIONER: ------------------- SIVAPRASAD, S/O. JANARDHANAN, KALLANKULAM HOUSE, CHETHALI.P.O, KOYALMANNAM, PALAKKAD. BY ADV. DR.GEORGE ABRAHAM RESPONDENTS: ----------------------- 1. STATE OF KERALA, REP. BY THE SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT, FOREST AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT, SECRETARIAT, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. 2. CONSERVATOR OF ECOLOGICALLY FRAGILE LAND, VAZHUTHAKKAD, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. 3. CHIEF CONSERVATOR OF FORESTS, VAZHUTHAKKAD, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. 4. DISTRICT FOREST OFFICER, NENMARA, PALAKKAD. BY GOVERNMENT PLEADER SRI. I.V.PREMOD THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 22/07/2008, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: S.SIRI JAGAN, J ================== W.P(C)No. 22006 of 2008 ================== Dated this the 22nd day of July, 2008. J U D G M E N T The petitioner's land is said to be taken over as ecologically fragile land purportedly in exercise of powers under the Kerala (Vesting & Management of Ecologically Fragile) Land Act, 2003. According to the petitioner, the land being an agricultural land, the same is not ecologically fragile land. In the above circumstances the petitioner filed Ext.P4 application under Section 19(3)(b) of the Kerala Forest (Vesting and Management of Ecologically Fragile Lands) Act. The petitioner seeks a direction to the 2nd respondent to consider and pass orders on Ext.P4 expeditiously. 2. I have heard the learned special Government Pleader (Forest) also. 3. In the facts and circumstances of the case, I dispose of this writ petition with a direction to the 2nd respondent to W.P(C)No. 22006 of 2008 - 2 - consider and pass orders on Ext.P4, as expeditiously as possible, at any rate within six months from the date of receipt of a certified copy of this judgment after affording an opportunity of being heard to the petitioner. The petitioner shall forward a certified copy of this judgment along with a copy of the writ petition to the 2nd respondent for compliance. S.SIRI JAGAN, JUDGE rhs