IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE THIRTIETH DAY OF JUNE TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE GODA RAGHURAM WRIT PETITION NO : 2708 of 2008 Between: Sri Kodam Radha Krishna S/o.Devadas R/o.Thangalapally Village, Sircilla Mandal, Karimnagar Dist. A.P. ..... PETITIONER AND The Managing Director, Co-operative Electricity Supply Society Ltd., Sircialla, Dist. Karimnagar A.P. .....RESPONDENT Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Affidavit filed herein the High Court will be pleased to to issue an appropriate writ, order or directions more particularly one in the nature of WRit of Mandamus, declaring the action of the respondent in disconnecting the electricity service connection bearing No.1909 without any default of payment, is illegal, arbitrary and violation of the articles 14 & 16 of the Constitution of India and consequently direct respondent to restore the electricity supply to service connection bearing No. 1909 henceforth and also direct the respondent to pay compensation of Rs.15,000/- towards the damages for illegal disconnection of electricity supply to the petitioner and pass such other order or orders. Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.BETHI.VENKATESWARLU Counsel for the Respondent No.: . The Court made the following, at the stage of admission : ORAL ORDER: The petitioner is a member of the Co-operative Electricity Supply Society Limited, Sircilla, Karimnagar District (for short ‘the Society’), which is stated to be a registered cooperative society under the A.P. Cooperative Societies Act, 1964 (for short ‘the Act’). The grievance in the Writ Petition is that the Society has disconnected electricity service connection No. 1909 to the petitioner, without any default on his part and in violation of the provisions of Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution. The petitioner has not chosen to implead the Society as a party to this writ petition. Instead, he has impleaded the Managing Director of the Society. There is not a scintilla of pleading to show that the Society is a State within the meaning of Art.12 of the Constitution. Since the Society is stated to have been registered under the provisions of the Act and in the absence of any specific pleading, the inference is compelling that the Society is not a State within the meaning of Art. 12 of the Constitution. Any grievance of the petitioner as a member with the Society must fall to be resolved under the provisions of Section 61 of the Act. The grievance presented in this Writ Petition is not a public law grievance and hence recourse to writ proceedings is inappropriate vi de SRI KONASEEMA CO-OP CENTRAL BANK LTD VS. N. SEETHARAMA RAJU ([1]). On the aforesaid analysis, the Writ Petition is dismissed at the stage of admission, after hearing the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Government Pleader. The petitioner may pursue available alternative remedies in accordance with law. There shall be no order as to costs. GODA RAGHURAM, J Date: 30.6.2008 cvm [1] . AIR 1990 A.P. 171 F.B.