THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION NO.15943 OF 2010 DATED 6TH JULY, 2010 BETWEEN Masina Sri Ramulu … Petitioner And The Government of Andhra Pradesh, Represented by its Principal Secretary, Panchayat Raj Department, Secretariat Buildings, Hyderabad-22. And Others. … Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION NO.15943 OF 2010 ORDER: The petitioner seeks to challenge the election notification dated 12.06.2010 pertaining to the Managing Committee of G.Medapadu Fishermen Co-operative Society, G.Medapadu Village, Samarlakota Mandal, East Godavari District. The election as per the said notification is scheduled to be held today. The ground of challenge is that that there are various irregularities in the voters list whereby ineligible voters have been included. Once the election process has commenced, this Court in exercise of jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution would not normally interfere. Only in exceptional cases where the error committed by the Election Authorities has the effect of preventing and not promoting the flow of election this Court would interdict the election process by exercising its extraordinary jurisdiction. Irregularities in the voters list does not constitute sufficient reason to stall the election process at the eleventh hour in the preset case, as the election is scheduled to be held today. As pointed out by a Division Bench of this Court in M.J.VEERAMANI v. GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH[1], a writ Petition is not normally maintainable for interrupting or protracting the election process in respect of Co- operative Society Elections. The Writ Petition is devoid of merit and is accordingly dismissed at the threshold. It is always open to the petitioner, if aggrieved by the result of such election, to raise the ground alleged in this writ petition by way of an election petition under Section 61 of the Andhra Pradesh Co-operative Societies Act, 1961. There shall be no order as to costs. ____________________ SANJAY KUMAR, J. 6TH JULY, 2010. VGSR/PGS [1] 2002 (1) ALD 621 (DB)