The appellants have come in appeal to this Court by special leave and have raised four points before us: (1)That the notification though it purports to be under section 53 A of the Act is really under section 57 which is shown by the grounds given in the notification, the powers vested in the Executive Officer and by the effect of the order ; (2)and if it is a notification under section 57 it is ultra vires because the statutory requirements of the section had not been complied with; (3) even if the notification be held to be under s.53 A of the Act it was still null and void and inoperative as it violated the principles of natural justice and (4)that the order made was mala fide inasmuch as it had been passed with an ulterior object of taking away the control of the municipality from the lndependent Party which was in a majority and that this was in accordance with the policy adopted by the State Government of superseding or suspending municipalities which were not controlled by the Congress Party.