ORDER

T.R. RAVI, J.

By order dated 01.02.2018, the Kerala Administrative Tribunal dismissed 15 original applications relating to the selection for appointment to the post of Driver Grade-II (LDV) in various Departments of the Government. The 3rd applicant in O.A.No.753 of 2017, which was one of the cases dismissed by the common judgment, filed O.P.(KAT)No.87 of 2018, challenging the judgment; and the other applicants deserted their cause. ZIA 210 of 2018 was filed by one K.M.Haris and 4 others for getting themselves impleaded in the above original petition. The Registry noted a defect that a person who is not a party to the proceedings before the Tribunal cannot be a party in the O.P.(KAT). The petition was placed before the Division Bench dealing with the subject.

2. The counsel for the petitioners in the impleading petition contended that they were beneficiaries of the common judgment and that since the applicants in the cases in which they were parties have not challenged the order, they should be afforded the chance to defend the order of the Tribunal. On consideration of the judgments in Gireesh Babu v. Pavithran, reported in [2013 (3) KHC 165] and the decision of the Hon'ble Sup