ORDER :

1. The petitioner Gavipuram Extension House Building So operative Society Limited has filed this petition challenging the order passed by the Deputy Commissioner, Bengaluru Urban District, on the application filed by the petitioner under Order 1 Rule 10 of Civil Procedure Code, 1908, (for short ‘CPC’) for impleading the petitioner as additional respondent in the proceeding before the Deputy Commissioner in Appeal No. SC ST(A) 99/201617.

2. Heard the argument of learned counsel for the petitioner and learned High Court Government Pleader.

3. The case of the petitioner is that respondent No.4 filed an application under Section 5 of the Karnataka Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prohibition of Transfer of Certain Lands) Act, 1978, (‘PTCL Act’ for short) which came into force with effect from 01.01.1979, for restoration of the land in new Sy.No.93 (old No.26/14) of Nagadevanahalli, on the ground that the land was a granted land and the same was alienated in violation of Section 4 of the PTCL Act. After considering the application, the Assistant Commissioner, Bengaluru South Division, dismissed the application filed by the grantee respondent No.4. An appeal was filed by res