JUDGMENT :

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.C. to S.C. 26 for the State.

2. The present writ application has been filed seeking quashing of the order dated 20.09.2016 passed in Election Dispute Case No. 56 of 2016 by the Registrar, Co-operative Societies whereby notices were issued upon the petitioners to appear and contest the case and also the Joint Registrar, Co-operative Societies was directed to hold an inquiry with respect to the charges leveled in Case No. 56 of 2016 filed by the respondent no.4.

3. The Court, initially, was not inclined to entertain the writ petition as no order adjudicating any lis was under challenge rather the notices issued to the petitioners and the direction upon the Joint Registrar, Co-operative Societies to hold an inquiry was only under challenge, but when the matter was taken up, the learned counsel for the petitioners submitted that after notice was issued on 20.09.2016, the Registrar, Co-operative Societies (Respondent No.2) passed final order dated 13.07.2017, whereby he rejected the contention of the petitioners that the issues raised in Case No. 56 of 2016 by the respondent no.4 is barred by res judicata and directed th