1. Complaints regarding the malpractices in the process of recruitment of officers and servants in the various Primary Agricultural Credit Societies Primary Credit Societies, Urban Cooperative Banks, Primary Cooperative Agricultural and Rural Development Banks, etc. are increasing day by day. This Court had occasion to come across several cases in the recent past, and in very many cases, Cooperative Department and the Government have interfered with the selection process, after conducting enquiries.

2. Government, in view of the wide spread complaints and criticism, from various quarters with regard to appointment in the Primary Cooperative Agricultural and Rural Development Banks, Urban Cooperative Banks, and various other banks, issued Ordinance 10 of 1995 directing those banks to effect appointments of officers and servants in their banks only from a select list prepared by the Public Service Commission. Ordinance was later replaced by Act 6 of 1995. S.80 of the Kerala Cooperative Societies Act was later amended adding sub-s. (3A) to that Section, which states that notwithstanding anything contained in the Act, or the rules made or orders issued thereunder or in the bye laws of