S. K. KULSHRESTHA, J.

( 1 ) THE 25 petitioners claiming to be members of the Sikh education Society, presently under supersession under Section 33 of the M. P. Societies Registrikaran Adhiniyam, 1973, and represented by Administrator, sikh Education Society, Jabalpur (respondent No. 4) seek a writ or a direction or order against the respondents to conduct elections of the society in accordance with the Bye-laws as amended in 1978, and, further, order restraining the respondents from holding the elections in accordance with the amendments made and said to have been registered in the year 1972. The case has a chequared history, but the facts can be broadly outlined thus : It is stated that earlier Khalsa Education society was managing the school called Khalsa girls Higher Secondary School, Jabalpur Cantt. and there was dispute between the members of the Managing Committee and the Principal of the school, which had given rise to proceedings under Section 145 of the Code of criminal Procedure. In the said dispute, an order Annexure R-5-2 was passed and the subject- matter of the dispute was attached. Accordingly, decision was taken to form a new society and Sikh Education Society was co

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