IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.18493 of 2008 Smt. Suhagwati Devi, Wife of Late Chandeshwar Mahto, Resident of Village – Balha Maksudanpur, Tole Munharwa, Post – Balha, P.S. – Pupari, District – Sitamarhi. ----------- Petitioner Versus 1. The State Of Bihar through the Secretary, Co-operative Department, Bihar, Patna. 2. The Registrar, Co-operative Society, Bihar, Patna. 3. The Joint Registrar, Co-operative Society Tirhut Division, Muzaffarpur. 4. The Managing Director-cum-Member Secretary, District Cadre Co- operative Society, Sitamarhi Central Co-operative Bank Ltd., Head Office, Sitamarhi Court, District – Sitamarhi. 5. The Administrative Officer, Sitamarhi Central Co-operative Bank Ltd., District – Sitamarhi. 6. The Manager, Account, Sitamarhi Central Co-operative Bank Ltd. District – Sitamarhi. 7. Cadre In-charge, Sitamarhi Central Co-operative Bank Ltd., Sitamarhi. ----------- Respondents ---------------------------------- 2 16.12.2011 Heard Sri Surendra Kishore Thakur, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri Sanat Kumar Mishra, learned counsel appearing on behalf of Respondent No. 1 to 3 /State of Bihar. After some argument learned counsel for the petitioner seeks permission to withdraw the writ petition with liberty to approach the appropriate authority under the Co-operative Societies Act. Prayer is allowed. The writ petition stands dismissed as withdrawn with liberty to approach Registrar, Co-operative Societies under the Co- operative Societies Act. The court expects that if such petition is filed before the Registrar, Co-operative Societies, the Registrar, Co- operative Societies keeping in view the fact that the writ petition was kept pending before this court for a longer time will take steps 2 so that the petition filed by the petitioner before the Registrar, Co- operative Societies, may be finally decided without any delay preferably within a period of six months from the date of filing of such petition. It is made clear that time consumed in pursuing the present writ petition shall be excluded while taking into account the limitation. Praful ( Rakesh Kumar, J.)