After the purchase of the said property, the same has been mutated in his name and basic land tax has also been accepted from him, as per Ext.P-3 land tax receipt dated 09.08.1988. Ext.P-4 is a copy of the extract of the basic tax register, pertaining to the abovesaid subject property, in which, according to the petitioner mistake has happened whereby subject property has been described as “forest department land”. The petitioner would assert that the property is in actual possession and enjoyment of the petitioner and the predecessor had obtained from court sale and that it is actually not a forest land but a land surveyed by the Revenue and Survey Department and for which there is a valid title. The petitioner has been told that his remedy would be to file an appropriate application for correction of mistakes in the revenue records before the competent revenue officials concerned and before his plea could be so considered on merits by the respondent-Revenue Department, he will have to secure a formal NOC from the forest officials concerned like R-1 & R-2. In that regard, the petitioner had submitted Ext.P-5 petition dated 18.12.2018 before the 1st respondent-Divisional Forest Officer, Palakkad, which has been received by the Senior Superintendent concerned attached to that office on 18.12.2018. The limited relief
