Locus standi in club matters requires a direct personal right; members cannot challenge managerial orders affecting only the body.

A member of a club or other corporate body cannot maintain a writ petition against an affecting only the body's managerial powers unless a direct personal right or distinct legal interest is shown. Where the impugned action merely requires prior governmental approval for appointments and the body itself does not challenge it, the member has no independent standing to proceed on the body's behalf. Absent personal infringement or demonstrable prejudice to the petitioner, the petition is not maintainable for want of locus standi.

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Issues: Whether a member of a club could maintain a writ petition challenging an order affecting the club's managerial powers when the club itself was not aggrieved and the petitioner showed no personal infringement of rights.

Analysis: A member of a corporate body has no independent rights qua the body except those conferred by the statute and the bye-laws, and must ordinarily act through the body itself. The impugned order only subjected appointments to prior governmental approval and affected the management's authority, not any personal right or interest of the petitioner. Since the club itself did not challenge the order and the petitioner did not establish any direct personal prejudice, the petition lacked standing.

Conclusion: The writ petition was not maintainable for want of locus standi.

Ratio Decidendi: A member of a club or other corporate body cannot challenge an order affecting only the body's managerial powers unless he shows a direct personal right or interest distinct from that of the body, which must speak for its members.

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