Panaji: The high court of Bombay at Goa has dismissed the application of chairman and member of the St Andre Milk Producers Co-operative Society Ltd, Ramesh Edathadan, whose nomination for the elections to the board of directors of the Goa State Co-operative Milk Producers Union Ltd was rejected.
This paves the way for the election of Goa dairy’s board of directors rescheduled for June 19.
During scrutiny, the returning officer found that Edathadan did not satisfy the rule of the bylaw 20.1.6 “has supplied milk to the union for more than 270 days in both the shifts in the preceding year except for the society having bulk milk cooler facility” and rejected the application.
Advocate V A Lawande representing Edathadan submitted to the high court that although the election process has begun, the court should consider peculiar facts of the case and interfere with the election process by directing the returning officer to reconsider the decision.
“However, no such exceptional case has been made out for interfering with the election process, which has begun. For all these reasons, the first question is answered in negative,” the court stated.
