ORDER :

1. This writ petition has been filed challenging the order passed by the 6th respondent Government appointing a Special Officer to Victoria Technical Institute, the 1st respondent herein under Section 34A of the Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act, 1973 [hereinafter called as “the State Act”].

2. The 1st respondent-Victoria Technical Institute is a society which was formed in 1887 and incorporated on 26.03.1889 under The Societies Registration Act, 1860 (Central Act XXI of 1860). [The 1st respondent will hereinafter be referred to as “the Society”]. After the enactment of The Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act, 1975, under Section 53 of the Act, every society registered under the Central Act, XXI of 1860 shall be deemed to be registered under the State Act and the bye-laws of such society shall, in so far as they are not inconsistent with any provision of this Act, continue in force until altered or rescinded. Hence, by virtue of Section 53 of the State Act, the 1st respondent society deemed to be registered under the Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act, 1975.

3. On the occasion of the Silver Jubilee of Her Majesty, the Queen Empress Victoria, in 1887, a Central Jubilee