1. The petitioner in this original petition is the son of one Velayudha Kurup who was the counter-petitioner in Arbitration Reference No. 57 of 1958 before the 2nd respondent-Deputy Registrar of Co-operative Societies. The grievance of the petitioner is against Ext. P1 order of the 1st respondent-Cooperative Tribunal, Trivandrum dismissing the revision petition filed by the petitioner, his late mother and three sisters. The said revision was against an order of the 2nd respondent impleading the legal representatives of the deceased Velayudha Kurup. The question that arises for consideration is whether an arbitrator under S.70 of the Kerala Co-operative Societies Act, 1969, for short the Act, has the power to implead the legal representatives and, if so, whether the legal representatives can be impleaded at any time after the death of the party.

2. The petitioner's father, Velayudha Kurup, left this world on 20 61970 when Arbitration Reference No. 57 of 1958 was pending before the 2nd respondent. In March 1974 the 3rd respondent-Liquidator filed a petition for impleading the legal representatives of the deceased Velayudha Kurup in the above Arbitration Reference. The peti