IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Writ Petition No. 126 of 2010 (S/B) Pushpa Gunjyal & others. .……… Petitioners Versus Uttar Pradesh Sahkari Gram Vikas Bank Ltd. & others. .………. Respondents. Mr. Lalit Belwal, Advocate for the petitioners. JUDGMENT Coram: Hon’ble J.S. Khehar, C.J. Hon’ble Sudhanshu Dhulia, J. J.S. KHEHAR, C. J. (Oral) Learned counsel for the petitioners has made an oral request, that the Registrar, Cooperative Societies, Uttar Pradesh, as also the Registrar, Cooperative Societies, Uttarakhand, be permitted to be impleaded as party respondent Nos. 5 & 6 respectively. 2. The oral request made by the learned counsel for the petitioners is accepted. The Registrar, Cooperative Societies, Uttar Pradesh, is ordered to be impleaded as party respondent No. 5, and the Registrar, Cooperative Societies, Uttarakhand, is ordered to be impleaded as party respondent No. 6. The Registry of this Court is directed to carry out necessary corrections in the memo of parties. 3. On our asking, Ms. Beena Pandey, Advocate, accepts notice on behalf of respondent No. 5, and Mr. H.M. Raturi, Advocate, accepts notice on behalf of respondent No. 6. 4. During the course of hearing, learned counsel for the petitioners invited our attention to the controversy raised in the instant writ petition, namely, that the petitioners are working in the Uttar Pradesh Sahkari Gram Vikas Bank Ltd. The aforesaid Bank, however, came to be bifurcated, w.e.f. 01.01.2010, into the Uttarakhand Rajya Sahkari Bank Ltd. and the Uttar Pradesh Sahkari Gram Vikas Bank Ltd., wherein their areas of functioning are commensurate to the territories of the States of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh respectively. Along with the bifurcation 2 of the Bank, the employees therein (including the petitioners) were allocated to one or the other of the two successor banks. It is submitted, that although the petitioners had submitted options for allocation to the Uttarakhand Rajya Sahkari Bank Ltd., they have been allocated to the Uttar Pradesh Sahkari Gram Vikas Bank Ltd. Consequent upon the aforesaid allocation, the petitioners have been relieved from their posting in the State of Uttarakhand and have been permitted to assume their duties in the State of Uttar Pradesh. This action at the hands of the competent authorities, according to the petitioners, has caused extreme hardship to the petitioners. 5. It is submitted, that the petitioners would be satisfied, if the instant writ petition is disposed of with a direction to the Registrar, Cooperative Societies, Uttar Pradesh (respondent No. 5) and the Registrar, Cooperative Societies, Uttarakhand (respondent No. 6), to hold a joint meeting and to consider the representation made by the petitioners on 02.04.2010. 6. During the course of hearing, learned counsel representing respondent Nos. 5 & 6 stated, that they have no objection to the disposal of the instant writ petition, in terms of the prayer made by the learned counsel for the petitioners. 7. In view of the above, the instant writ petition is disposed of, with a direction to respondent Nos. 5 & 6, i.e. the Registrar, Cooperative Societies, Uttar Pradesh, and the Registrar, Cooperative Societies, Uttarakhand, to hold a joint meeting and to take a final decision on the representation made by the petitioners on 02.04.2010, and pass a well- reasoned speaking order thereon within two months from the date of receipt of the certified copy of the instant order, coupled with a copy of the instant writ petition. 8. The instant writ petition stands disposed of accordingly. Order dasti on payment of usual charges. (Sudhanshu Dhulia, J.) (J.S. Khehar, C. J.) 12.07.2010 12.07.2010 G