Civil Writ Petition No. 17361 of 2010 (O&M) 1 In the High Court of Punjab and Haryana, at Chandigarh. Civil Writ Petition No. 17361 of 2010 (O&M) Date of Decision: 1.12.2010 Hardev Singh …Petitioner Versus The Registrar, Co-operative Societies, Punjab and Others …Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA. Present: Mr. M.S. Kang, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Anil Kumar Sharma, Additional Advocate General, Punjab, for respondents No.1 and 2. Mr. Ashwani Prashar, Advocate for respondent No.3. Mr. Sahil Sabhlok, Advocate, for Mr. D.S. Patwalia, Advocate for respondent No.4. Mr. R.K. Sharma, Advocate for respondents No.5 and 6. Kanwaljit Singh Ahluwalia, J. (Oral) Civil Misc. No.17001 of 2010 Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that he does not press the present application. As prayed, the present application is dismissed as not pressed. Civil Writ Petition No. 17361 of 2010 (O&M) 2 Civil Writ Petition No.17361 of 2010 The present writ petition has been filed seeking a writ in the nature of Certiorari for quashing of the impugned order dated 31.8.2010 (Annexure P10), passed by the Joint Registrar, Co-operative Societies, Patiala Division, Patiala, whereby he had dismissed the election petition, preferred by the petitioner. At the very outset, it was pointed out to learned counsel for the petitioner at the time of first hearing that the remedy of appeal is available, therefore, the petitioner should avail the same. Learned counsel for the petitioner has levelled serious allegations of malafide against the authority, who had decided the election petition and the authority before whom the appeal was to be listed. Learned counsel for the petitioner mustered courage to implead the authorities, which had passed the orders, by name. Therefore, this Court has granted indulgence. Today, learned counsel for the parties are in agreement that this Court need not to go into the allegations of malafide. That being so, this Court is of the view that at first instance, the petitioner should be relegated to the remedy of appeal. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that in case the appeal is filed, the same will take long time and the valuable right of the petitioner to hold office of the Director of the Society shall suffer. To allay this apprehension, it is ordered that in case the petitioner institutes the appeal within a period of 15 days, from today, the Appellate Authority shall decide the appeal within three months thereafter. Since the petitioner has opted for a wrong forum under the Civil Writ Petition No. 17361 of 2010 (O&M) 3 wrong notion of law, no argument regarding delay in filing of the appeal shall be raised and if the appeal is filed within the aforesaid period of 15 days, the same shall be construed within limitation. With the observations made above, the present writ petition is disposed of. (Kanwaljit Singh Ahluwalia) Judge December 1, 2010 “DK”