IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Writ Petition No. 2548 of 2007 (M/S) Mohd. Mohsin S/o Mohd. Mobin R/o Village Kasampur, Tehsil Jaspur, District Udham Singh Nagar. . Petitioner ...………… [ Versus 1. Registrar Cooperative Societies, Uttarakhand, Dehradun. 2. Assistant Registrar Cooperative Society District Udham Singh Nagar. 3. Mohd. Umar, Mukhya Pravartak, Dead Animal Society, Vikas Khand Jaspur, District Udham Singh Nagar. ...…………. Respondents Mr. I.D. Paliwal, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. K.P. Upadhyay, Addl. C.S.C. for respondents No. 1 and 2. Hon’ble Prafulla C. Pant, J. Heard learned counsel for the parties. 2) Brief facts of the case are that the petitioner is Mukhya Pravartak of Dead Animal Society. The petitioner’s society is a registered cooperative society, which is engaged in collection of dead bodies of the animals in District Udham Singh Nagar. It is alleged in the writ petition that respondent No. 3 claimed himself to be Mukhya Pravartak of a Dead Animal Society by forging papers in the name of ‘Dead Animal Postmortem Society’. By raising such a society, the respondent No. 1 has illegally 2 interfered in the working of the society, run by petitioner. With these allegations, petitioner has sought writ in the nature of mandamus, directing the respondents to take action on the enquiry report dated 10.09.2007 submitted by Assistant Development Officer, Co-operative Society, in the matter. A further writ in the nature of certiorari has been sought for quashing the registration of the Society run by respondent No. 3. 3) A counter affidavit has been filed on behalf of respondents No. 1 and 2, in which it has been admitted that a complaint was received from the complainant against respondent No. 3, and enquiry was conducted and report is pending with Assistant Registrar, Co-operative Society, District Udham Singh Nagar, and it will take some time to take action in the matter. As to the registration of the society run by respondent No. 3, it is stated in the counter affidavit, that there is no bar in registration of more than one cooperative society for doing work of collecting dead bodies of the animals. It is further stated that the activities of the cooperative societies run by the petitioner and respondent No. 3 are governed by the Uttarakhand Co- operative Societies Act, 2003. 4) Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that he does not press the relief relating to quashing of registration of the cooperative society run by respondent No. 3. He further submitted that a decision is required to be taken by respondent No. 2 on the report (copy Annexure –4 to the writ petition) submitted by Assistant Development Officer, Co-operative Societies. Learned Chief Standing Counsel 3 states that respondent No. 2 has no problem in taking the decision in the matter. 5) Therefore, in the above circumstances, the writ petition is disposed of with the direction that respondent No. 2 shall take a decision on the report dated 10.09.2007, submitted by Assistant Development Officer, Co-operative Societies, in the matter within a period of two months from the date certified copy of this order is produced before such authority. (Misc. Application No. 25 of 2009 also stands disposed of). (Prafulla C. Pant, J.) [ Dt. January 07, 2009. H.Negi 4