HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY W.P.No.25556 of 2010 Date : 28-10-2010 Between : Arikatla China Venkaiah Chowdary Educational Society, Maddipadu village & Mandal, Prakasam District .. Petitioner And District Registrar and Registrar of Societies, Prakasam Bhavan, Ongole, Prakasam District. .. Respondent Counsel for petitioner : Sri Kurra Srinivas Counsel for respondent : Government Pleader for Co-operation The Court made the following : ORDER: This Writ Petition is filed for a mandamus to declare the inaction of the respondent in receiving the document submitted by the petitioner as illegal and arbitrary. I have heard Sri Kurra Srinivas, learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue. The petitioner is an Educational Society registered under the provisions of the Societies Registration Act, 1860. In the General Body meeting held on 22-5-2006, one Ch.Siva Prasad Rao was stated to have got elected with 3/5th majority as President of the Society. It is pleaded by the petitioner that the said fact was intimated to the respondent and that the same was acknowledged by him. One of the members of the Society who was stated to have been expelled from the membership filed S.R.O.P.No.8/2008 in the Court of District Judge, Prakasam District questioning the validity of the elections. It is specifically averred that no injunction has been granted in the said O.P though the same is pending. The General Body of the petitioner-Society was stated to have met on 31-3-2009 and passed certain resolutions which include renewal of registration of the Society. When the said resolution was sought to be communicated to the respondent, the latter has allegedly not been receiving the same. The petitioner has therefore approached this court by way of the present Writ Petition. The learned Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue, on instructions, submitted that since an election dispute by way of S.R.O.P.No.8/2008 is pending, the respondent has not received the resolution of the petitioner. In my opinion, unless the respondent is prevented from receiving such resolutions from the petitioner by an order passed by a competent court of law, he cannot refuse to receive them merely on the ground that a dispute relating to the election of the Managing Committee is pending adjudication before the competent court. It is not the pleaded case of the respondent that any such order was passed by the competent court. Therefore, I find no justification in the action of the respondent in not receiving the resolutions sent by the petitioner for being placed on record. For the above mentioned reasons, the Writ Petition is allowed and a mandamus shall issue directing the respondent to receive the resolutions from the petitioner for being placed on record. ____________________ C.V.Nagarjuna Reddy.,J Date : 28-10-2010 AM