JUDGMENT - C.S. DHARMADHIKARI, J.:---All these writ petitions were heard together as they involve common questions of law and fact, and, therefore, are being disposed of by this common judgment.

2. In all these writ petitions, the first proviso to sub-section (3) of section 27 of the Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act, as amended, is challenged on various grounds. In writ petition No. 3952 of 1984 respondent No. 6 the Nasik District Central Co-operative Bank Ltd., Nasik is a Co-operative society duly registered under the Act. It is also a Central Co-operative Bank within the meaning of the said expression as defined in section 2(6) of the Act. It is an Apex Co-operative bank for the Nasik District. It is also a co-operative bank within the meaning of the said expression in sub-section (10) of section 2. It is also a federal society as defined in sub-section (13) of section 2 of the Act. Consequently, therefore, the voting rights in regards to the election of the Board of Directors, of respondent No. 6 are regulated in accordance with the first proviso to sub-section (3) of section 27 of the Act, as amended. On the basis of the said provision, the respondents have prepared a vot

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