1. The petitioner is a share-holder of the Changaramkulam Service Cooperative Society and seeks to quash the action of the 1st respondent in respect of an election to the Board of Directors of the Society and further seeks a writ of mandamus, forbearing the 1st respondent from conducting further elections, on the basis of the nominations already accepted. The notices of elections to the Board of Directors of the Society were issued by the 4th respondent on 2 61967. Nominations were to be accepted from 3 61967 upto 5 6 1967; scrutiny of nominations was to be made on 7 61967; and the elections themselves were to be held on 18-6-1967. The petitioner filed his nomination in Ward I on 5-6-1967. His nomination was rejected on the ground that on the date of the nomination he was in arrear to the Society with certain sums due from him. This, according to the petitioner, was unjustified and illegal. Further, according to the petitioner, the nominations of the 4th, 6th and the 12th respondents to this writ petition werewrongly accepted, overlooking considerations and circumstances which ought to have disqualified them from election. The

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