JUDGMENT

The writ petition has been filed praying for quashing Ext.P1 notice and Ext.P5 order, whereby the petitioner has been removed from the membership of the 3rd respondent Society. The petitioner became a member of the Society in the year 2019. From 12.10.2021 the Society has been governed by an Administrator. According to the petitioner, there are only 31 active members in the Society in terms of the byelaws. The first respondent issued Ext.P1 notice on 10.12.2021, calling upon the petitioner to show cause why he should not be removed from the membership. It is stated that similar notices were issued to 24 other persons mentioned in Ext.P7. Ext.P4 is the explanation submitted by the petitioner to Ext.P1 notice. By Ext.P5 order dated 15.3.2022, the first respondent removed the petitioner from the membership by invoking Rule 16 of the Kerala Co- operative Societies Rules, 1969 (hereinafter referred to as the Rules), on the complaint submitted by the Administrator of the Society. The first respondent has also removed 24 others, whose names have been mentioned in Ext.P7. The petitioner contends that Ext.P1 and Ext.P5 are in defiance of the interim order dated 6.12.2021 and the ju