Puthan Purakkal Joseph vs The Sub Collector on 15 July, 2013
2. The learned Senior Counsel appearing for the
petitioners would submit that the petitioners purchased the
above land and a further extent of 20.25 cents in Survey
No.689/2 of the identical village by Exts.P1 to P4 sale deeds and
started construction of a residential apartment complex based
on a building permit issued to the prior owners, which was
converted into the name of the petitioners and period extended
till 2019. The learned Senior Counsel submits that the land, in
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which the construction is carried on is in Survey No.683/3, which
even according to the Draft Data Bank published by the Local
Level Monitoring Committee (LLMC), as is evident from Ext.P14, is
a converted land, which conversion was carried out 10 years
prior, hence long before the introduction of Kerala Conservation
of Paddy Land and Wet Land Act, 2008 (for brevity 'the Paddy
Land Act'). The learned Senior Counsel would rely ondecisions of
this Court in reported in Aboobacker v. Manjeri Municipality
[2015(1) KLT 309], Puthan Purakkal Joseph v. Sub Collector
[2015 (3) KLT 182], Issathul Islam Madrassa v. Keezhattoor
Grama Panchayath [2015(3) KLT 344] as also the decision of
the Hon'ble Supreme Court in Revenue Divisional Officer v.
Jalaja Dileep [2015(1) KLT 984].