Hon’ble Mrs. Sangeeta Chandra, J.—This writ petition has been filed by petitioners’ Committee of Management headed by its manager Dinesh Chandra Singh challenging the order dated 3rd of October, 2004 passed by the Vice Chancellor, Sampurnanand Sanskrit University, Varanasi and praying for a writ in the nature of Mandamus commanding the respondents to recognize the petitioners’ Committee of Management as duly elected in the elections held on 14.12.2002.

2. This writ petition had earlier been dismissed on 1.5.2013 as having become infructuous but the petitioners filed Special Appeal No. 893 of 2013 which was allowed by a Division Bench of this Court on 31.5.2013, and the matter was remanded back to this Court to be heard on merits.

3. It is the case of the petitioners that a Society by the name of Shri Radha Krishna Adarsh Sanskrit Vidyalaya, Sukhpura, Ballia was registered sometime in the year 1981. The said Society runs a Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya affiliated to Sampurnanad Sanskrit University. As per the bye-laws of the Society the term of Committee of Management is five years.

4. In the year 1987 a dispute arose with regard to the selection on the post of Principal. The Unive