IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL. Writ Petition No. 643(S/S)2007 Umesh Chandra S/o Sri Bhagwan Singh, Assistant Accountant, Gadarpur Branch, Udham Singh Nagar, District Cooperative Bank Ltd. ---- Petitioner. Vs. 1. Registrar, Co-operative Societies, Uttarakhand, Dehradun, 2. Committee of Management, Udham Singh Nagar District Co-operative Bank Ltd. Rudrapur, Through it’s Secretary/General Manager. ---- Respondents. Sri Manoj Tewari, learned counsel for the petitioner, Sri Paresh Tripathi, learned State Counsel for the State of Uttarakhand/respondent no. 1. Hon’ble M.M. Ghildiyal, J. Heard Sri Manoj Tewari, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri Paresh Tripathi, learned State Counsel for State of Uttarakhand/respondent no. 1. By means of this writ petition, the petitioner has prayed to issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus commanding the respondent no. 1 to hear and decide the statutory appeal dated 22.10.2006 submitted by the petitioner against the punishment order dated 01.12.2006. Stand of the petitioner is that the petitioner who was working as Assistant Accountant/Junior Branch Manager in District Cooperative Bank, Rudrapur a departmental inquiry was initiated against him. After holding due inquiry, the Appointing Authority awarded punishment to the petitioner on 01.12.2006. Aggrieved with the punishment order, the petitioner preferred appeal before the Registrar, Co-operative 2 Societies, Uttarakhand, Dehradun on 22.12.2006. The said appeal is still pending before the Registrar/ respondent no. 1 and till date he has not taken any decision in the appeal preferred by the petitioner. Learned counsel for the petitioner has confined his prayer that the respondent no. 1 may be directed to take decision on the appeal preferred by the petitioner on 22.12.2006 within the period as stipulated by this Court. In the circumstances, I think it just and proper to direct the respondent no.1 to take decision in the statutory appeal preferred by the petitioner on 22nd December 2006 within a period of three weeks from the date of production of a certified copy of this order. With these directions, the writ petition is finally disposed of. No order as to costs. (M.M. Ghildiyal, J.) June 8, 2007: NCM