By the Court.—This is a bunch of three special appeals directed against the judgement and order dated 24.2.2014 passed in separate writ petitions No. 7474 of 2014, 7634 of 2014 and 7727 of 2014, which were all filed against the order dated 29.1.2014 passed by the Election Officer.

2. The dispute in the present appeal is with regard to the election process for electing the members of the Managing Committee of the Azamgarh Muslim Education Society, Azamgarh (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Society’), which runs two prestigious colleges, namely, Shibili National P.G. College, Azamgarh (hereinafter referred to as the ‘PG College’) and Shibli National Inter College, Azamgarh (hereafter referred to as to the ‘Inter College’).

3. The last elections of the managing committee of the society as well as of the two institutions were held on 30.1.2011, which were in terms of the directions issued by the Division Bench of this Court in Special Appeal No. 1736 of 2010. In the said elections held in the year 2011, there were 699 members of the general body of the society. It is not disputed that the general body of the society is the same as that of the two institutions. In terms of the sa