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The Kerala High Court recently held that an occupancy certificate for a building cannot be denied on the ground that the land on which the building was constructed is a wetland or paddy land provided the building permit was obtained prior to the 2017 amendment to the Kerala Conservation of Paddy Land and Wetland Act (Act) [Usha Rajan v Tripunithura Municipality & Ors and S Umesh Shenoy v Tripunithura Municipality & Ors.]