IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. C.W.P. No. 19287 of 2008 DATE OF DECISION : 12.11.2008 The Sarai Amanat Khan Cooperative Agricultural Service Society Ltd. .... PETITIONER Versus The State of Punjab and others ..... RESPONDENTS CORAM :- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SATISH KUMAR MITTAL HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JASWANT SINGH Present: Ms. Jagdeep Bains, Advocate, for the petitioner. * * * SATISH KUMAR MITTAL , J. ( Oral ) The petitioner Society has filed this petition under Article 226/227 of the Constitution of India for issuing direction to the respondents to include its name as a member of the Amritsar Central Cooperative Bank Limited, Amritsar (respondent No.5 herein) and allow it to participate in the elections of the Board of Directors of the said bank, which is scheduled to be held on 18.11.2008. Before approaching this Court, the petitioner Society filed a revision petition under Section 69 of the Punjab Cooperative Societies Act, 1961, which has been dismissed by the Additional Registrar (Industrial) Cooperative Societies, Punjab, Chandigarh, vide order dated 5.11.2008, while observing that since the election process has already started on CWP No. 19287 of 2008 -2- 22.10.2008, therefore, at this stage, the prayer made by the petitioner could not have been accepted. After hearing learned counsel for the petitioner Society and going through the contents of the petition, we do not find any ground to interfere in the said order in exercise of the writ jurisdiction of this Court under Article 226 of the Constitution of India. In our view, when the voter list was finalised, immediately thereafter the petitioner Society should have raised the objection that its name was not included in the voter list. Though a vague averment has been made that the objections were filed, but it has not been stated as to what happened to those objections. After finalisation of the voter list, election programme has been issued. In view of these facts, we are not inclined to entertain this petition. At this stage, learned counsel states that the petitioner Society may be permitted to withdraw this petition with liberty to avail its remedy after the elections. Dismissed as withdrawn with the aforesaid liberty. ( SATISH KUMAR MITTAL ) JUDGE November 12, 2008 ( JASWANT SINGH ) ndj JUDGE