The Kerala High Court’s Division Bench on Monday upheld a provision in the Kerala Cooperative Society Act that bars members of managing committees of credit societies, such as State cooperative banks, service cooperative banks, and primary agricultural societies, from contesting elections for more than three consecutive terms, media reports say..
The ruling overturns a single judge’s earlier verdict, which had declared the section unconstitutional.
The court had previously stayed that decision, and the latest ruling comes in response to an appeal filed by the State government seeking to restore the term limit provision.
