1. This writ petition concerns the election to the Board of Directors of a Co-operative Society, the Nadapuram Service Co-operative Bank Limited. That Society, going by the records in the case would appear to be a hotbed of litigation and not an oasis of co-operation. This litigation is perhaps yet another dying ember in the fire.

2. Elections did not take place on the expiry of the term of office of the previous Board. That resulted in an administrative committee being in office. That committee perhaps behaved just like any other administrative committee or many of such committees. If the allegations of the 4th respondent are correct, they constitute a sad commentary on the functioning of that committee. This Court is not concerned in this writ petition with the allegations about the omissions and commissions of that committee. It is sufficient to say that the petitioner, who was the Chairman of the Administrative Committee, figures in, and spear-heads, many a litigation.

3. Attempts were made earlier to stay, and thus prolong the elections in 1982. That was the main purpose of O.P. No. 7161 of 1982, where an interim order of stay of election had been initially passed. T