IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE SEVENTEENTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE L.NARASIMHA REDDY WRIT PETITION No. 10866 of 2008 Between: I.Aga Reddy, S/o. I.Ramana Reddy, R/o. Plot No.1352, Road No.68, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad-500 033. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Registrar of Public Societies, Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad. 2 The Jubilee Hills International Centre, Road No.14, Juilee Hills, Hyderabad-33, Rep by its Secretary. .....RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Aﬃdavit ﬁled herein the High Court will be pleased to issue a Writ, Order or direction more in the nature of Writ of Certiorari calling for the records relating to the Letter No.JHIC/AF-20/6364/2008 dated 12-5-2008 issued by the 2nd Respondents and quash the same as illegal and violative of principles of natural justice and pass Counsel for the Petitioner: MR.Y.RAMA RAO Counsel for the Respondents: . The Court made the following ORDER: The petitioner challenges the order, dated 12.05.2008, passed by the Jubilee Hills International Centre, the second respondent herein. The son of the petitioner, by name Sri I.Rajender Kumar, was a member of Jubilee Hills Cooperative House Building Society and thereby, a member of the second respondent Centre. The Rules of the second respondent provide for admission of aﬃliated members also, who, in turn, are not sponsored by the regular members. The petitioner came to be sponsored by his son Sri I.Rajender Kumar and he is continuing as aﬃliated member. The membership of I.Rajender Kumar is said to have been transferred both in the Housing Society as well as the second respondent, in favour of his younger brother. The petitioner was, however, continuing as affiliated member. Through the impugned proceedings, the second respondent informed the petitioner that by operation of Rule 25(c), he ceased to be an aﬃliated member. The petitioner challenges the same and submits that the transfer of membership at the second respondent, by itself, would not bring about termination of aﬃliated membership. The second respondent ﬁled a counter aﬃdavit, raising an objection as to the maintainability of the writ petition itself. It is pleaded that the petitioner has to avail the remedy under the Andhra Pradesh Societies Registration Act (for short ‘the Act’). On merits also, it is pleaded that the impugned order fully accords with the relevant Rules. Heard Sri K.Pratap Reddy, the learned Senior Counsel for the petitioner and Sri P.Venu Gopal, the learned counsel for the second respondent. It is, no doubt, true that the adjudication of the legality of the impugned order, dated 12.05.2008, depends on the interpretation to be placed upon various clauses of Rule 25. The fact, however, remains that the petitioner had an eﬀective alternative remedy by way of ﬁling O.P. under Section 23 of the Act. The petitioner can put forward all his factual and legal contentions before the Court concerned. Therefore, the writ petition is disposed of, leaving it open to the petitioner to avail the remedy under Section 23 of the Act. The learned Senior Counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was availing the beneﬁt of aﬃliated member for the past several years and that he may be granted reasonable time to avail the remedy. The plea is opposed by the learned counsel for the second respondent. Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, it is directed that status quo obtaining as on 16.09.2008 shall be maintained for a period of four weeks from today. It is made clear that the Court, before which the petitioner ﬁles O.P., shall decide the same as well as the applications ﬁled therein, on their own merits, uninfluenced by any observations made in this order. There shall be no order as to costs. ___________________ L.NARASIMHA REDDY,J Dt:17.09.2008. kdl