K. RAMACHANDRA RAO, J.

( 1 ) IN this writ petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution, the petitioner seeks the issue of a writ of certiorari call for the records relating to the proceedings bearing No. CESS G. M. D. No. 1529 of 1975-76 dated 10 and 11th September. 1975 of the General Manager, Co-operative electricity Society Limited, Sircila, removing him from service. Various contentions have been raised in the writ petition challenging the impugned order. A preliminary objection has been raised by Sri P. A. Chowdary, the learned Counsel for the respondent contending that the respondent is a private society and therefore writ under Article 226 of the constitution does not lie. Sri H. S. Gururaja Rao, the learned Counsel for the petitioner submitted that the respondent is a co-operative society a statutory and public body and therefore a writ lies but this questition is no longer res integra so far as this is concerned.

( 2 ) IN Mirmuzam Ali Khan vs. The Managine Director. The Andhra Pradesh co-op. Central Land Mortigage Bank Barkatpura Hyderabad 21 (I) Obul reddi, J (as he then was) held that he had held in a number of petitions that Article 226 of the Constitution of Ind

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