JUDGMENT

V.D. Bhargava, J. - These conneted applications (sic) on behalf of Mohar Singh and Ram Dayal Shukla Under Article 226 of the Constitution of India. Both the applicants were elected as members of the Notified Area Committee, Colonelganj, district Gonda, in October, 1953 and they had been acting as such upto March, 1956. t is alleged that there were two parties in the Notified Area and of the 11 members 6 belonged to the party of the applicants and 5 to the other. The parties of the Petitioners were in majority and the President belonged to the other party. On account of this tie, the President wanted somehow or the other to reduce the majority to a minority.

2. As against Mohar Singh, a false complaint was filed sometime in August, 1955 by the Secretary and same other officials of the Notified Area Committee that he had abused the Secretary in public for refusing to act in a manner suggested by one Ranjit Singh in connection with the application of one Jaimal Singh for permission to build a house. The Petitioner Mohar Singh, was not aware of this complaint at all. On 2-11-1955 a letter was issued to him by the District Magistrate requiring him to show cause within 15 days why