Since common questions of law and facts are involved in all these appeals, by the consent of the learned advocates for the parties, they are taken up together for hearing.

2. These appeals are filed against a common order passed by the Hon’ble Single Judge allowing a batch of writ petitions filed by the applicants for addition of parties before the Karnataka Appellate Tribunal (hereinafter referred to as the Tribunal, for brevity) and directing their addition in the appeals before the Tribunal.

3. The litigation has a chequered history. Adjacent owners residing in Cunningham Cross Road, Bengaluru, are fighting to establish their respective rights concerning a construction put up in premises bearing No.40, Cunningham Cross Road.

4. It is an admitted position that the residents of Cunningham Cross Road have formed a Forum known as ‘Citizens Forum for Safe Environment,’ (hereinafter referred to as the Forum, for short) of which they are the members.

5. The owner of the premises bearing No.40, Cunningham Cross Road, allegedly made a construction in violation of the sanctioned building plan.

6. The Forum and some of its members filed a complaint before the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara