This is an appeal from the Judgment of Ramakrishnan, J., dismissing a petition (W.P. No. 379 of 1961) filed under Article 226 of the Constitution by the appellant C. Lakshmiah Reddiar for the issue of a writ of certiorari or any other appropriate writ to quash the proceedings of the Board of Directors of Sriperumbudur Taluk Co-operative Marketing Society, dated 19th March, 1961, in so far as they relate to the rejection of the nomination paper of the appellant in connection with the election of the Directors of the Society. The appellant’s nomination was rejected on the ground that he had not brought to the Society a quantity of 50 maunds of paddy for sale through the Society. The main ground on which the appellant impugned the order of the Board of Directors was that the entire proceedings relating to the scrutiny of nomination papers were vitiated by gross violation of all principles of natural justice inasmuch as the Directors, who had offered themselves for re-election, took part in the disposal of the objection to the nomination of the appellant. The appellant alleged that his nomination was rejected to avoid competition. The Directors had acted as judges in t