JUDGMENT :

All these intra-court appeals seek to lay a challenge to a learned Single Judge’s orders dated 10.10.2023 & 12.10.2023, whereby a direction has been issued to conduct elections to the Board of Cooperative Banks in a time bound way/expeditiously. A direction is also issued not to disqualify the board members from electoral participation.

(i) The order dated 10.10.2023 has been rendered in a batch of cases i.e., W.P.No.20333/2023 (CS-EL-M) C/w W.P.No.20340/2023 (CS-EL-M), W.P.No.20353/2023 (CS-EL-M) W.P.No.20458/2023 (CS-EL-M) and W.P.No.22296/2023 (CS-EL-M). The order dated 12.10.2023 has been rendered in W.P.No.21325/2023 (CS-EL-M) c/w W.P.No.21356/2023 (CS-EL-M) and W.P.No.21461/2023 (CS-EL-M).

(ii) The two companion appeals i.e., W.A.No.1391/2023 & W.A.No.1392/2023 are instituted by non-parties to the above writ petition challenging the aforesaid order dated 12.10.2023, to the extent it permits the members of the Board of the Cooperative Bank concerned. They have sought for le