SOUMEN SEN,J. - (1.) The convening of a meeting by the General Secretary of Officers of UCO Bank on 15th August, 2018 by a notice dated 6th August, 2018 is challenged in this proceeding.
(2.) There appears to be a dispute between two groups of trade unions and the sore point appears to be that some of the members who have casted their votes were ineligible in terms of guidelines issued by election commission on 3rd July, 2018. It appears that the election commission on 3rd July, 2018 has issued a Guideline for Election/Selection Of Delegates to the 10th Triennial Conference to be held at Kolkata on 11th and 12th August, 2018.
(3.) The learned Counsel for the parties have submitted that out of six zones election has already taken place for the five zones and the dispute is with regard to the Kolkata Zone, which represents the head office. The dispute arose at the time of counting of votes. The Election Commission stalled the counting by a notice dated 21st July, 2018 alleging that serious disputes have arisen regarding members list of head office unit of association of Officers of UCO Bank as on 30th June, 2018 as raised by contesting candidate and subsequent clarifications given by General Secretary AOUCB, West Bengal and it has been decided that the counting of votes shall be kept in abeyance till the matter is investigated and final report is submitted to the election commissioner.;