(B.R. Gavai, J.)

1. Admit. By consent, taken up for final hearing.

2. The appellants/Original Writ Petitioners have approached this Court by way of present intra Court appeals being aggrieved by the part of the findings, as recorded by the learned Single Judge of this Court in Judgment and Order, dated 16.8.2012 passed in Writ Petition No.956 of 2011 along with companion petitions.

2. The facts, in brief, giving rise to the present appeals, are as under:

Respondent no.2/Divisional Joint Registrar, Co-operative Societies, Amravati, on the basis of the report of NABARD and the subsequent report by the District Deputy Registrar, Co-operative Societies, Yavatmal, had issued show cause notices on 26.2.2012 to fourteen Directors of respondent no.3/Yavatmal District Central Cooperative Bank, who are respondent no.4 respectively in each of these appeals, calling upon then to show cause as to why they should not be held to be 'disqualified' under the provisions of Section 73-EA of the Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act, 1960 (hereinafter referred to as “the Act“ for the sake of brevity). The basic ground raised in the said show cause notices was that the said Directors of resp