Hon'ble Dinesh Maheshwari, J.—The petitioner, an Advocate practising at Ghaziabad and having taken the membership of the Bar Association, Ghaziabad (Civil Courts) [respondent No. 3 - hereinafter referred to as ‘the Association’/'the Bar Association’], seeks issuance of a writ in the nature of certiorari for quashing the impugned order dated 3rd December 2014 whereby, he has been debarred from the membership of the Association for a period of one year; and also seeks issuance of writ in the nature of mandamus directing the Association to accept his membership fees and permit him to contest the elections of the year 2015 for the post of President of the Association.

2. Put in a nut-shell, the submissions of the petitioner in this writ petition are that the respondent No. 3 Association is registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 [‘the Act of 1860’], and is affiliated to the Bar Council of U.P. [respondent No. 2] and as such, is amenable to the writ jurisdiction. It is also submitted that the respondent No. 3 Association is registered with its bye-laws, which are in consonance with the model bye-laws framed by the Bar Council of U.P. and if any Governing Body or th