1 The two petitioners are members of the Neyyattinkara Housing Cooperative Society Ltd. No. T-385, Elections were to be held for the vacancies of nine members in the Society. Nominations were invited for the same, Ext. P1 being the notice inviting nominations. The two petitioners tendered their nominations; but the same were rejected by the Returning Officer although no objections to their candidature was taken by any one else, on the ground that they are employees of other Cooperative Societies and therefore disqualified from seeking election under R.44(1)(f) of the Rules framed under the Cooperative Societies Act The petitioners seek to quash this decision of the Returning Officer. They have prayed for a writ of certiorari directing the 2nd respondent, namely the Returning Officer, to include their names in the list of valid nominations for election, and a writ of mandamus restraining the 2nd respondent from conducting the election for the Managing Committee of the Society, without including the petitioners in the list of valid nominations,

2 Although the petitioners obtained an interim stay regarding the holding of the elections to the Managing Committee, it was stated in the c