1 WP 2430/2011 abs IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO. 2430 OF 2011 Laxman N. More .. Petitioner V/s Pandurang Sahakari Sakhar & Ors. .. Respondents Mr. A.S. Desai for the petitioner. Mr. A.V. Anturkar, i/b Mr. S.B. Deshmukh for respondent no.1. Mr. V.D. Patil, A.G.P. for the State. CORAM : MOHIT S. SHAH, C.J. & D.G. KARNIK, J. Thursday, April 21, 2011 P.C. : 1. By this petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, the petitioner has prayed for a direction to the Commissioner of Sugar and the Regional Joint Commissioner of Sugar, Pune to take action against the respondent no.1 – Pandurang Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana Ltd., Malshiras, District Solapur, for violating the terms and conditions of the crushing license and for not lifting the sugarcane of the petitioner from his agricultural land. 2. Learned counsel for the respondent no.1 has opposed the petition on the ground that the petitioner has an equally 2 WP 2430/2011 efficacious alternative remedy of raising a dispute before the Cooperative Court under section 91 of the Maharashtra Cooperative Societies Act and therefore the present petition is not maintainable. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the said remedy will take considerable time and the petitioner being a small farmer cannot afford to wait for so long. Learned counsel for the respondent no.1 submits that the respondent no.1 will cooperate for expeditious hearing of the dispute before the Cooperative Court. 3. In view of the above objection and the statement, we dispose of this petition as the petitioner has an equally efficacious alternative remedy of raising a dispute before the Cooperative Court under section 91 of the Maharashtra Cooperative Societies Act. In case the petitioner raises such a dispute before the Cooperative Court within 2 weeks from today, the Cooperative Court shall expeditiously dispose of the same and preferably within 2 months from the date of service of the notice on the respondent no.1 society. CHIEF JUSTICE D.G. KARNIK, J.