It is unfortunate that despite the authoritative pronouncement of this court in Damodaran v. Joint Registrar. 1989(1) KLT 858. Anthrayose v. Senior Inspector of Co-operative Societies. 1992(2) KLT 489. Abraham v. Returning Officer. 1993(1) KLT 548. Ravi v. Kottayam Co-operative Urban Bank. 1993 (1) KLT 644 and Pankajaksha Panicker v. Venugopalan Nair. 1993(2) KLT 641. Returning Officers at elections to co-operative societies continue to reject nominations without any rhyme or reason. leading to proliferation of unnecessary avoidable litigation. The case on hand is one in point. I think it will be advantageous and fruitful if the Registrar of Co-operative Societies educates the Returning Officers about the recent decisions on the point as to the circumstances in which alone a nomination for election to the managing committee of a co-operative society may be rejected.

2. Briefly the facts. Elections to the managing committee of the Thiruvananthapuram Dairy Employees Sahakarana Sangham Ltd. (the society for short). of which the petitioners are members. is proposed to be held on June 27.1994. Thirty two nominations were filed. including those of the nine petitioners of which