within the alignment area proposed for the widening of the road. The petitioner, therefore, demolished the portion of the building, which came within the alignment of the road widening scheme, and thereafter, strengthened the remaining portion of the building and put up two additional floors to the structure that remained after the initial demolition works. The rooms in the additional floors, as also the remaining rooms of the old building, were thereafter let out to tenants. The petitioner's wife, who was the owner of the building, died in February, 2007 and, subsequent to a partition that was effected between the legal heirs of the deceased wife, the ownership of the building came to be vested in the petitioner. The petitioner, therefore, preferred Ext.P4 application before the respondent Panchayat seeking a change of the ownership of the building in the records of the Panchayat. To the said application dated 29.09.2008, the petitioner was served with Ext.P5 reply dated 10.11.2008, which indicated that, inasmuch as the building that now stood in the property had no resemblance to the earlier building that was described by the petitioner, and further, there was no permission produced by the petitioner in terms of the Kerala Municipality Building Rules to justify the
