JUDGMENT :

1. In these four Writ Petitions filed by the respective petitioners, being aggrieved by the decision of the respondent No.4/Election Officer of Ashok Cooperative Sugar Factory Limited, in rejecting their nomination papers for being elected to the Managing Committee of respondent No.5/Ashok Cooperative Sugar Factory Limited, they have invoked writ jurisdiction of this Court for quashing and setting aside the impugned order.

The petitioners are also aggrieved by the order passed by the respondent No.3/District Cooperative Election Officer and Regional Joint Director of Sugar, Ahmednagar, rejecting the respective appeals filed by them by invoking Section 152-A of the Maharashtra Cooperative Societies Act, 1960.

2. All the four Writ Petitions raise a similar challenge and therefore, they are heard together and disposed of by this common judgment.

3. In favour of the petitioners, I have heard Shri Ajit Kale, the learneds, the respective petitioners have supplied the sugarcane to the Sugar Factory in the following  advocate and learned AGP Shri S.G. Sangle for respondent No.