JUDGMENT

1. By consent, heard finally at admission stage.

2. The petitioner is a Co-operative Society registered under the provisions of Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act, 1960 (hereinafter for the sake of brevity referred to as "the Societies Act"). By way of present writ petition, the petitioner is challenging the legality, validity and propriety of the order dated 15.01.2021 passed by respondent No.1, thereby rejecting the objection raised by the petitioner for including the name of delegate of the petitioner society in the final voters list in the ensuing elections of respondent No.4-Parbhani District Central Co-operative Bank Limited, Parbhani (hereinafter for the sake of brevity referred to as "respondent No.4 Bank").

3. The learned senior counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner society is registered on 4.6.2016. After registration of the petitioner society, the petitioner society has passed resolution in the general body meeting on 8.6.2016 for taking the membership of respondent No.4 Bank and accordingly the application for membership was filed on 11.7.2016. The petitioner society has also purchased the share capital for the membership of respondent No.4 Ba