( 1 ) IN the writ petition, as originally presented, a writ of quo warranto was sought against the respondents 2, 3 and 4. In the election held on 2-4-1997 to elect the office bearers and Directors of the Committee of Management of the fifth respondent Co-operative Society, namely, Mutyalarao Co-operative housing Society Limited, the respondents 3 and 4 were elected as Directors, whereas the respondent No. 2 was elected as the President of the said society. The petitioners are the members of the society. According to the petitioners, the respondents 2, 3 and 4, on the date of filing of their nominations, were working as employees; the respondent No. 2 was working as an employee of Hindustan Machine Tools, a Central Government Undertaking; the respondent No. 3 was working as Upper Division Clerk in Defence meteorological Research Laboratories (DMRL); and the respondent No. 4 was working as an Attender in the Bank of Baroda, and therefore all of them were disqualified to be members of the society by force of the disqualification prescribed under clause (i) of sub-section (1) of Section 21-A of the Andhra pradesh Co-operative Societies Act, 1964, for short the Act , as