1. This writ petition has been brought by a co-operative society by name the Alleppey Co-operative Land Mortgage Bank Ltd. through its President and the question raised relates to the validity of an order dated 9th June 1970 passed by the State Government whereby the Registrar of Co-operative Societies was directed to grant permission to register a primary land mortgage bank for the Shertallai Taluk as had been applied for by the convener of the Shertallai Taluk Land Mortgage Bank Promotion Committee. A copy of the impugned order has been produced as an annexure Ext. R-1 attached to the counter-affidavit filed on behalf of the State of Kerala.

2. The petitioner society has been conducting its activities in the Shertallai taluk also and had included the said area as part of the area of its opera-tion in its bye-laws. At that time there was no separate co-operative land mortgage bank functioning in Shertallai taluk. A committee appears to have been constituted by the residents of the Shertallai taluk with the 3rd respondent as its convener for the purpose of organising a separate land mortgage bank for Shertallai taluk and getting it registered under the Kerala Co-operativ