JUDGMENT

This writ petition has been filed challenging Ext.P6 order of the Appellate Authority setting aside Ext.P3 order of the Registering Authority granting registration under Rule 26A of the Kerala Headload Workers Rules , 1981 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Rules’), to petitioners 2, 3 and 4, who are stated to be headload workers of the 1^st petitioner.

2. The learned counsel appearing for the petitioners would submit that a reading of Ext.P6 order would indicate that the reason found by the Appellate Authority to set aside Ext.P3 order of the Original Authority is mainly that the Original Authority did not carry out necessary inspections and did not verify the various records before granting registration to petitioners 2, 3 and 4. It is submitted that if the Appellate Authority had reached the conclusion that the Original Authority had not conducted the necessary inspections and verified the records, it was open to the Appellate Authority to undertake such exercise itself, as the powers of the Appellate Authority are coextensive with that of the Original Authority and the order setting