JUDGMENT :

P.B.Suresh Kumar, J.

This appeal is directed against the judgment dated 6.6.2019 in W.P.(C) No.14689 of 2019. The appellant is the petitioner in the writ petition. Parties and documents are referred to in this judgment as they appear in the writ petition.

2. Petitioner was the President of the Managing Committee of Thumboor Service Co-operative Bank Limited (the Bank), a co-operative society registered under the Kerala Co-operative Societies Act, 1969 (the Act). On 30.04.2019, the jurisdictional Joint Registrar of Co-operative Societies exercising the powers of the Registrar of Co-operative Societies under the Act in respect of the Bank issued Ext.P7 notice to the petitioner and other members of the Managing Committee of the Bank invoking sub-section (1) of Section 32 of the Act calling upon them to show cause why they shall not be removed from office. It is alleged in the said notice that the petitioner and other members of the Managing Committee have illegally and without authority expended amounts much more than what was sanctioned for construction of a few buildings; that they are not releasing gold ornaments pledged with the Bank to the borrowers on liquidation of thei