1. The appellant is the Vice President of the Kerala State Electricity Board Executive Workers' Union. He filed a writ petition on behalf of the Union for quashing Ex. P9, claiming that the respondent, the Kerala State Electricity Board, should not have withdrawn the recognition given by the Board to the Union. A learned judge dismissed the writ petition, and hence the appeal. The decision of the Single Judge is reported as M. A. David v The Kerala State Electricity Board (1972 I. L. L. J. 44).

2. Some of the contentions raised before the Single Judge have not been very seriously urged before us: of course, they have also been urged, but not seriously. One of them is that the decisions taken under Ex. P9 were under extraneous political pressure. As the Single Judge has rightly pointed out, the allegations of mala fides are denied in the counter affidavit filed on behalf of the Board. And it is also averred in the counter affidavit that the Board has taken these decisions bona fide after careful deliberation without being influenced by any extraneous consideration. The Single Judge has accepted the truthfulness and genuineness of these allegations; and we do not think we