J.B. Koshy, J.

Petitioners are members of the third respondent society. Second petitioner is a member of the Board of Directors whose term expired on 30.5.1999. As per the Bye-laws of the society, members of the managing committee are nine. Since four of them have resigned from the managing committee, only five remained. As per S.28(5) of the Kerala Co-operative Societies Act thereinafter referred to as 'the Act'), quorum for a meeting of the committee shall be such number of members just above fifty percent of the total number of members of the committee. Therefore, quorum for a valid meeting of the Board of Directors is 5. On 30.3.1999 a meeting of the Board of Directors was convened in which all the five Directors have attended initially. Decision to conduct election should be taken before sixty days of the expiry of the term of the committee. Therefore, a decision had to be taken regarding the election to be conducted on 30.5.1999 as the term of the committee was to expire on 30.5.1999. According to the petitioners, they had some objection regarding membership of certain persons and, therefore, second petitioner left the meeting and resolution No. 275 and some other