In these two writ petitions, the issue raised by the petitioners is the same, but the grounds on which the petitioners have set up their respective cases are different. The issue is whether the voters list published by the 3rd respondent-Returning Officer appointed by the administrator of the Alleppey Co-operative Spinning Mills Ltd. (ST)-8, the 1st respondent in W.P (C).No.30057/2006 and the 2nd respondent in the other (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Society’) for election to the society is legally sustainable and whether the election notified on 26-11-2006 can be validly conducted on the basis of such an electoral roll/voters list. In W.P (C).No.30057/2006 the complaint is that eligible members of the society are left out from the voters’ list and in W.P (C).No.30748/2006, the complaint is that ineligible persons who have not been validly enrolled have been included in the list. Ever since the inception of the Society on 20.2.1982, except for the period from 1988 to 1992, the society was administered either by the nominated committee at the time of formation of the Society or the administrative committee appointed by the Government. It so happened that the initially