N.L. UNTWALIA, J.

(1) THESE three appeals by the Bar council of Delhi and the Bar council of India are from the common judgment of the Delhi High court allowing three Writ Petition filed by the first respondent in each appeal and others seeking the setting aside of the election of the Bar council of Delhi held in the year 1.978. As the points involved in them are identical they are all being disposed of by this common judgment. We shall proceed to state the facts from the records of Civil 2224 of 1979 in which respondent 1 is Shri Surjeet Singh Bhangul. He was a voter as also a candidate for the election wherein he lost. In the writ petition giving rise to Civil 2225 of 1979 there were three petitioners two were candidates but Shri D. R. Thakur was an advocate whose name was not included in the electoral roll although his name occurs in the State roll of advocates. Shri A. S. Randhawa, respondent 1 in Civil 2226 of 1979 was a person whose name occurred both in the State roll of advocates as also in the electoral roll. But he was not a candidate.

(2) SURJEET Singh was an advocate who was a member of the Delhi Bar council before the impugned election. A proviso was adde