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

2. Respondent No. 3 in Writ Petition No. 943 of 1988 i.e. Shri Jagdamba Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana Ltd. is registered under the Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act, 1960 (hereinafter referred as to the Act) as a Processing Society. It has set up a sugar factory with crushing capacity of 850 m.t. per day. The area of operation of the society extends to Karjat Taluka of Ahmednagar district. At the relevant time the society had 4200 individual members and 26 Co-operative Society members. The said society is a specified society within the meaning of section 73-G of the said Act. In the elections held on 26-3-1983 the Directors of this specified society were elected. One Shri K.R. Deshmukh was elected to the Board of Directors both from Producers constituency as well as from the Co-operative Societies constituency and, therefore, he was required to vacate one seat. On 30-3-1983 Shri Deshmukh resigned as Director from the Co-operative Societies constituency. Consequently a vacancy arose and fresh election became ne

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