( 1 ) BY this Order M. P. No. 1575 of 1984 Pritamsing v. Shri Kunjbihari Lal Guru and others is also disposed of. In the first petition the election of Shri Dharamchand Jain and Shri Kunjbihari Lal Guru as Directors of the District Co-operative Central Bank Ltd. is under challenge and also rejection of the nomination paper of petitioner No. 2 Hanuman Prasad Pathak for election as Director while in the second petition eligibility of Kunjbihari Lal Guru as President of the said Bank is under challenge.

( 2 ) THE District Co-operative Central Bank Ltd. is a Central Co-operative Society as defined by S. 2 (c-1) of the M. P. Co-operative Societies Act, 1960. Several primary cooperative societies in the Damoh district are the members of the Bank. There are resource Societies of different categories which form group "". There are Marketing societies which form group "" and there are also one group of other societies which form group "". There are 7 blocks in the Bank and from each block 2 directors from Resource Societies are elected i. e. from group "". In all 2 Directors are elected from group and one Director from group "". The President of the District Cooperative Land Development Bank Ltd. is the ex-officio Director of the Bank. There are other ex-officio Directors, namely, Collector or his nominee, Deputy Director of Agriculture, Assistant Registrar, Co-operative Societies and the Managing Director or the Manager of the Bank, Shri R. K. Dube, Sub-Divisional officer, was appointed the Returning Officer by the Collector for holding election of the Directors. The election was held on 4-6-1984. Petitioner 1 Anantsingh and respondents 8 and 9 Seth Dharmachand Jain and Shri K. B. L Guru were elected. The result was declared on 5-61984. Petitioner 2 Hanuman Prasad Pathak contested but his nomination paper was rejected as he was found to be a defaulter. M. P. 1492/84 has been filed by these two petitioners on 11-6-1984 and the declaration of result of the election of President and Vice-President was stayed by this Court on the same day. However, it appears that elections were held on 13-6-1984 but in view of the stay order declaration of the result was withheld. These two petitioners have challenged, the nomination of Shri Dalchand Rai on the ground that he represented the Large Scale Cooperative Society, Ghatera Banwar in Jabera Block, 92 members of that society were in arrears and Rs. 67,660. 75 p. was also outstanding against the Society for more than 12 months and, as such, the Society or its representatives are disqualified under S. 50-A of the Act. The President of the District Cooperative Land Development Bank, Damoh, is also an ex officio Director of the Bank. Since the Board of Directors of the Development Bank stands superseded under S. 53 of the Act and the Registrar has appointed persons to manage the affairs of the Society, Shri Gopaldas Choudhary was appointed President of the Committee. However, only the duly elected President of the Land Development Bank can become ex officio Director and, as such, Shri Choudhary could not have cast his vote in the election of the Director nor he is entitled to participate in the election of the President and Vice-President of the Bank. Petitioner 2 was a representative of the Large Scale Co-operative Marketing Society, Bansatarkheda and he had filed his nomination paper for being elected as one of the Directors of the Bank. His nomination paper was rejected by the Returning Officer on 28-5-1984 on the ground that he was indebted to Damoh Marketing Society and was disqualified under S. 50-A although he had not taken any loan but made certain purchases and the amount outstanding was paid on 28-5-1984 itself. Since his nomination paper has been rejected, Shri Dharmchand Jain and Shri K. B. L Guru have been declared elected as Directors unopposed from that Block. The petitioners therefore, challenged the election of Dalchand Rai, rejection of nomination of Hanuman Prasad Path