JUDGMENT :

P.B.Suresh Kumar, J.

This writ appeal is directed against the judgment dated 2.12.2020 in W.P.(C) No.20210 of 2020. The appellant is the petitioner in the writ petition.

2. The appellant is a Primary Agricultural Credit Society (the Society), a co-operative society registered under the Kerala Co-operative Societies Act, 1969 (the Act). The last election to the managing committee of the Society took place on 06.05.2018 and the managing committee elected on 10.05.2018 is therefore entitled to continue in office till 09.05.2023. During 2020, on the basis of a complaint lodged by the fourth respondent and a few others, the first respondent, the jurisdictional Joint Registrar of Co-operative Societies, directed the second respondent to inspect the books of the Society under Section 66(2) of the Act. Later, on the basis of the report of the said inspection, the Joint Registrar issued Ext.P4 notice calling upon the managing committee of the Society to show cause why they shall not be superseded under Section 32(1)(c) of the Act. Ext.P4 notice was challenged by the appellant in the writ petition mainly on the ground that the power under Section 32(1) of the Act cannot be invoked on