G.D. PATIL, J.:---In all these petitions since the prayer is for quashing and setting aside the supplementary voters lists at Annexure A to the respective petitions and since the petitioners are claiming restoration of their names in the voters' lists as delegates of their respective societies to vote at an election of the Managing Committee of the respondent Nagpur District Central Co-operative Bank (hereinafter referred to as 'the Bank'), they were heard together and are being disposed of by this common judgment.

2. All the petitioners are members of their respective Seva Sahakari Societies registered under the provisions of the Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act, 1960 (hereinafter referred to as 'the Act') which are classified as Service Societies and the respondent Bank is the federal society of these societies.

The societies of which the petitioners are delegates, are thus the member societies of the Federal Society-the respondent Bank. It is an undisputed fact in all these petitions that all the petitioners were chosen by their respective member societies as their respective delegates, duly authorized to vote at the election to the committee of the respondent Bank, which

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