GOPALAN Vs. JOINT REGISTRAR OF CO OPERATIVE SOCIETIES

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Anthony Carter, after an intensive study of an area in India observed: "Cooperative Societies are an important source of political power ......"

(2.) Whether the observation has relevance for the State of Kerala may be a matter for profitable study, if it leads to an effective remedy in the event of there being deleterious effects in the working of the societies due to struggle for power,

(3.) That political squabbles have been prevalent in the Iriveri Service Cooperative Bank appears to be self evident in the light of accusations and counter accusations made by the petitioner and the party respondents. Thus in ground D of the original petition the petitioner asserted: