-: 1 :- wp- 2242/11. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO. 2242 OF 2011 Smt. Radha Chakrapani. ..Petitioner. Versus Minister for Co-operation & Marking, State of Maharashtra & Ors. ..Respondents. Mr. Y. S. Jahagirdar a/w Mr. S. S. Kanetkar for the petitioner. Mr. R. M. Patne, AGP for R-1 to 3. Coram : RANJIT MORE, J. Date : March 21, 2011. P. C. : 1. Heard Mr. Jahagirdar, learned senior counsel for the petitioner and Mr. Patne, learned AGP for respondent nos. 1 to 3. 2. Petitioner’s application under section 21A of the Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act, 1960 [for short “the said Act”] for de- registration of respondent no.4 society was dismissed by Divisional Joint Registrar. The petitioner thereafter by way of an appeal under section 152 of the said Act approached the Minister for Co- operation, Government of Maharashtra, however, her appeal was also dismissed by order dated 17/6/2010. This order is impugned in the present petition. srp -: 2 :- wp- 2242/11. 3. Respondent no.4 Society is registered by the Assistant Registrar, Co-operative Societies on 11/11/1996. Six years thereafter, the petitioner initiated the proceedings for de- registration of the said society by filing an application under section 21A of the said Act, on the ground that out of 42 members, 15 members had already expired and 9 members did not join the proposal of registration. Her contention is that at least 70% of the tenement holders should join and therefore the society in fact could not have been registered. Both the objections of the petitioner came to be overruled by recording concurrent findings by the authorities below. 4. There is no dispute that 15 tenants had already expired when the registration proposal was submitted to the competent authority. It was certified by the Municipal Corporation that those 15 persons were tenants of the property belonging to the Corporation and at the time of registration of society, the names of legal heirs of these persons were shown. The legal heirs have signed the proposal of registration of society. As of today, except the petitioner nobody has come forward and contested the claim of legal heirs of these deceased persons. The society is registered 14 years ago. The petitioner is also a tenant of the Municipal -: 3 :- wp- 2242/11. Corporation against whom proceeding under section 105 of the MMC Act is initiated. It seems that the petitioner is in minority. The development cannot be stalled at the instance of the petitioner and it will not in the interest of tenants. The same view is taken by the authorities below. I am not inclined to interfere with this consistent finding. In the circumstances writ petition is dismissed. (RANJIT MORE, J.)