M. Ramachandran, J.

Ext.P5 proceedings drawn up by the third respondent-Returning Officer, who had been authorised to conduct an election to the Perumbalam Milk Producers Cooperative Society, Alappuzha, (4th respondent) (herein after referred to as the Society) is under challenge by the Chairman of the Administrative Committee, who is presently in office. The Society came into existence in 1995, but the Committee constituted could not carry out any functioning and the Department was constrained to appoint an Administrator in the same year, under S. 33 of the Kerala Co-operative Societies Act. The term of the Administrator was not extended thereafter and practically the activities of the Society became defunct. After about eight years, there were proposals for resurrecting the Society. By Ext.Pl proceedings, the Department had appointed an Administrative Committee for reviving the institution. The order required them to restart the functioning of the institution and also for taking steps for conducting an election, for constituting a Director Board. The period of the Committee was stipulated as three months from 9.6.2003. It appears that the term had been extended and dur