IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO.3712 OF 2008 Jyotsna Vishwanath Desai through PoA Nutan Vikas Desai ..Petitioner. V/s. Assistant Registrar Cooperative Society, Karad & Others ..Respondents. Mr.A.V. Anturkar, senior counsel with Mr.S.B. Deshmukh for the petitioner. Mr.S.D. Rayrikar, AGP for respondent Nos.1 and 2. CORAM : J.P. DEVADHAR, J. DATED : 24TH JUNE, 2008. P.C. 1. The question involved in this writ petition is as to whether the Divisional Joint Registrar was justified in rejecting the Revision Application filed by the petitioner for want of pre-deposit of 50% of the recoverable dues as contemplated under Section 154 (2A) of the Maharashtra Cooperative Societies Act, 1960 (‘Act’ for short). 2. The grievance of the petitioner is that during the pendency of the Revision Application, they had applied to the Divisional Joint Registrar seeking waiver of pre-deposit of 50% of the recoverable dues and without disposing of the said application, the Divisional Joint Registrar ought not to have disposed of the Revision Application filed by the petitioner without going into the merits and only on the ground that the petitioner has not deposited 50% of the recoverable dues. 3. There is no merit in the above contention, because, section 154(2A) of the Act does not empower the Divisional Joint Registrar to grant waiver of 50% of the recoverable dues. Therefore, in absence of any power vested in the Divisional Joint Registrar to waive the mandatory deposit of 50% of the recoverable dues before entertaining the Revision Application under Section 154(2A) of the Act, the order passed by the Divisional Joint Registrar cannot be faulted. In fact, in the case of Greater Bombay Cooperative Bank Limited V/s. Dhillon P. Shah reported in 2004 (1) Mah. L.J. 596, this Court has held that Section 154 (2A) of the Act is mandatory. 4. In this view of the matter, I see no merit in this Writ Petition and the same is dismissed. No costs. J.P. DEVADHAR, J.