Judgment

SHAH, J.- The Nagpur District Land Development Bank Ltd., is registered as a society under the Maharashtra Cooperative Societies Act, 1960. One Narayan Tanbaji Murkute applied for memership of the Bank as a "nonborrowing member". At a meeting of the Bank held on June 30, 1964, the application of Murkute and of 94 others were granted and they were enrolled as members. But in the list of members entitled to take part in the General Meeting dated June 30, 1964 the names of Murkute and others were not included.

2. Murkute and others then applied to the Registrar Co-operative Societies for an order declaring that they were entitled to participate in the election of office bearers and for an injunction restraining the President and the Secretary from holding the annual General Meeting. The Registrar referred the dispute for adjudication under S. 93 of the Maharashtra Cooperative Societies Act 1960, to H.V. Kulkarni, his nominee. The nominee decided the dispute on May 7, 1965 and held that Murkute and other applicants were members of the Bank. In the proceeding before the nominee certain documents including the minutes book of the Bank were produced. It is claimed by Murkute that t