-: 1 :- HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Civil Application No. 2258 of 2009 IN Writ Petition No. 5254 of 2009 The State of Maharashtra & Others. ..Applicants. Versus Shivnath Milk Co-operative Society Limited & Others. ..Respondents. Mr. V. S. Gokhale, AGP for the Applicants. Ms. Manisha Jagtap i/b. M/s. J. Shekhar & Co., for the Respondent no.5. Coram : S. B. Mhase & R. M. Savant, JJ. Date : September 18, 2009. P. C. : 1. Heard both sides. This Court on 25th June 2009 had passed order while disposing of the Writ Petition No. 5254 of 2009 that the election of the Pune District Co-operation Milk Producers’ Federation Limited, Katraj shall be completed within a period of four months. The voters list has been finalised. The present application for extension of time has been moved by the Applicant – State stating that the programme, if tried to be completed within four months, is likely to come in conflict with the elections to the State Assembly. We are not satisfied with the manner in which the orders are tried to be obeyed by the State Authorities, especially the Collector and the Election Officer. However we also desire that there should not be any conflict with the election programme of the specified -: 2 :- society with the assembly elections. 2. Therefore, instead of giving blanket extension of time, we had asked the Applicant to prepare the election programme as per Rule 16 of the Specified Societies Election Rules and submit it to the Court. Accordingly, the Deputy District Election Officer has filed an affidavit today along with the election programme as provided under Rule 16 which commences from 23rd October 2009 and comes to an end on 4th December 2009. The affiant has undertaken that the programme will be executed in accordance with the law and rules and has further undertaken that in order to avoid inconvenience to the persons participating in the election the office of the Returning Officer will be working on holidays also. The statements and undertakings given in the affidavit are accepted. In view of the said facts, we extend the period which was already granted. The extended period would be to the extent of the Schedule mentioned in the Affidavit which we have referred to hereinabove. The Applicant is further directed that they should meticulously follow the programme which is annexed to the affidavit of Varsha M. Ladda. Civil Application is accordingly disposed of. (R.M.SAVANT, J.) (S.B.MHASE, J.)