High Court restores the managing committee of Milma's Thiruvananthapuram Regional Co-operative Milk Producers Union

4 November 2026

Kerala's High Court has put back in office the superseded body that runs the Thiruvananthapuram Regional Co-operative Milk Producers Union, the Milma unit serving Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Pathanamthitta and Alappuzha. A Division Bench of Justice A.K. Jayasankaran Nambiar and Justice A.K. Preetha quashed the order of the Registrar of Co-operative Societies that had superseded the committee over the supply of ghee to the Sabarimala Sannidhanam. The Bench also set aside a Single Bench order that had upheld the Registrar. It found that the Registrar had acted on a report of the Joint Director (General) of the Directorate of Dairy Development, that the committee members had cooperated with the inquiry, and that there was no risk of evidence being tampered with. The supersession under the Kerala Co-operative Societies Act, 1969 had also been ordered without consulting the State Co-operative Union. The Court said action by a statutory authority without the required reasons casts doubt on its good faith, and directed the restored committee to replace the Administrator.