1 lgc IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO.7549 OF 2009 Mumbai Sahakari Board Ltd. & Anr. : Petitioners versus The State of Maharashtra & ors. : Respondents. Mr N N Bhadrashete for the Petitioners mr S N Patil, AGP, for the Respondent Nos.1 and 2. Mr. A S Desai for the Intervenors. Smt. R R Savle, Naib Tahasildar, Election Office of the Collector Mumbai City present. CORAM : S B MHASE & R M SAVANT, JJ. DATE : 8th September 2009 P.C. 1. The election process of the Respondent No.3 had commenced from the stage of publication of the provisional voters list and finalization of the same as provided under the Maharashtra Specified Co-operative Societies Election to Committee Rules 1971. The 1st publication was made on 27.2.2009 and the voters list was to be finalised by 16.5.2009. However, the said programme was not implemented because of the Parliamentary Elections which had taken place in May 2009. After the Parliamentary Elections again the program for finalization of the voters list was published on 4.4.2009 and the said program had commenced on 15.7.2009 and the final list of the voters was published on 25.8.2009. 2 The concerned officer Smt.R R Savle, Naib Tahasildar from the Election Office of the Collector Mumbai City is present in Court. She reports to this Court that voters list has been finalised on 25.8.2009. It appears that again the further programme has been postponed in view of the Government Notification dated 27.7.2009 which has been published in the Government Gazette. It has been postponed because of the rainy season and because of the ensuing Assembly Elections. However, the said notification specifically states that where the election process has commenced and has stopped because of the said Government Notification issued under Section 73(1)(b) of the Maharashtra Co- operative Societies Act, the said process shall re-start again from the stage at which it was stopped. 2. Taking cognizance of this provision, we only observe that after the Assembly Elections are over, the Respondents shall start the process from the stage at which it was stopped as a result of the above referred Government Notification. 3. With the aforesaid directions, the above Petition is disposed of. [R.M.SAVANT, J] [S.B.MHASE, J]