IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.9009 of 2004 ============================================= Jagannath Singh, s/o Shri Chulhai Singh, s/o- village and P.O.- Bairiya, P.S.- Piparahi, Via Righa, District- Sheohar. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar 2. Sri K.K. Pathak, Managing Director, Bihar State Housing Cooperative Federation Ltd., Lalit Bhawan, Jawaharlal Nehru Marg, Patna- 800001. .... .... Respondent/s ============================================= Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Vindhya Keshari Kumar, Sr. Advocate For the Respondent/s : Mr. Purushottam Jha Mrs. Kiran Kumari, A.C. to G.A. 7 ============================================= 3 30-09-2011 Mr. Vindhya Keshri Kumar, learned Senior Counsel for the petitioner, Mr. Purushottam Jha for the respondent Bihar State Housing Cooperative Federation Ltd (for short “ the Federation”) and counsel for the State are present. Petitioner, being an employee of the Federation, has filed the present application questioning the sustainability of order dated 3.12.2003 passed in Reference No. 1290 by the Managing Director of the Federation duly approved by the Board of Directors of the Federation whereby he has been compulsorily retired. Learned Senior Counsel, on going through the pleadings and the orders on which reliance has been placed by learned counsel for the respondent, states that the Federation shall not be 2 amenable to the writ jurisdiction. He, however, submits that the dispute would lie before the Registrar, Cooperative Societies in terms of provisions of the Bihar and Orissa Cooperative Societies Act, 1935. Learned counsel submits that the petitioner would be advised to take recourse to the said forum. The dispute/appeal, if any, preferred by the petitioner would obviously be barred by limitation. Petitioner is granted liberty to file an application seeking condonation of delay on the ground that he has been bona fidely pursuing the present matter before this Court. The application is disposed of. PANKAJ KUMAR/- (Kishore K.umar Mandal, J)