IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION NO : 2510 of 2008 DATED:8.2.2008 Between: Kota Krishna Murthy and ors petitioners And The District Collector , Warangal district, Warangal and ors Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA W.P. No. 2510 of 2008 Oral order: The present writ petition is filed questioning the action of the respondents in proposing to conduct the elections to the managing committee of the 5th respondent society on 12.2.2008 without considering the representation of the petitioners dated 2.2.2008 as illegal and arbitrary. The petitioners claim that they are the members of the 5th respondent society and have participated in the last elections held in the year 1992. The grievance of the petitioners in the present writ petition is that in pursuance of the proceedings of the first respondent dated 2.1.2008, the third respondent has issued election notification dated 28.1.2008 to conduct elections to the 5th respondent on 12.2.2008 and prepared a voters list on 24.1.2008, deleting their names. The further grievance of the petitioners is that no orders are passed on the representation submitted by them to the 2nd respondent on 2.2.2008. Hence, the present writ petition. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Government Pleader for Co-operation. The grievance of the petitioners is with regard to deletion of their names from the latest voters list prepared on 24.1.2008, which cannot be gone into by this Court. As per section 61(3) of the A.P. Co- operative Societies Act, 1964, every dispute relating to, or in connection with any election to a committee of a society shall be referred for decision to the Tribunal having jurisdiction over the place where the main office of the society is situated, whose decision shall be final. In view of that, and having regard to the fact that the dispute raised by the petitioners relate to deletion of their names from the voters list, I am of the considered opinion that the said question cannot be gone into by this Court in this writ petition, and the remedy of the petitioner, is to approach the Tribunal. This Court in M . Ramachandra Reddy and Others v. Government of A.P.[1] held that even if it was assumed that there were certain irregularities in enrolment of the members of the society and preparation of the voters list, as held by the apex Court in Shri Sant Sadguru Janardan Swami (Moingiri Maharaj) Sahakari Dugdha Utpadak Sanstha v. State of Maharashtra[2], the same can at the most be a valid ground to raise an election dispute after the declaration of the result, and that sub-sections (3) and (4) of Section 61 of the Act in clear terms provide that any dispute relating to any election to a committee of a society shall be referred to the Tribunal only after the date of declaration of the result of such election. For the foregoing reasons, I find no merit in the writ petition, and the same is accordingly dismissed. However, the petitioners are at liberty to approach the Co-operative Tribunal under Sections 61(3) and (4) of the A.P. Co-operative Societies Act, after conduct of the elections and raise election dispute. No costs. _________________ N.V. RAMANA, J. Dated:8.2.2008. tvk THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION NO : 2510 of 2008 DATED:8.2.2008 [1] 2006 (2) ALD 296 [2] (2001) 8 SCC 509