IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND TEN PRESENT THE HON'BLE MS JUSTICE G.ROHINI WRIT PETITION No. 12722 OF 1999 Between: Smt. Kharimunnisa Begum ..... PETITIONER AND The District Cooperative Officer, Sanga Reddy, Medak District and others .....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioner: Counsel for the Respondents: The Court made the following : THE HON'BLE MS JUSTICE G.ROHINI WRIT PETITION No. 12722 of 1999 O R D E R : This writ petition is filed seeking a declaration that the order passed by the Deputy Registrar of Cooperative Societies, Siddipet dated 18.05.1999 directing attachment of the petitioner’s immoveable property in exercise of the powers conferred under Section 73 of the Andhra Pradesh Cooperative Societies Act, 1964 (for short ‘the Act’) is arbitrary and illegal. The material placed before this Court shows that the petitioner’s husband, who was working as Secretary of the 3rd respondent-Society died on 23.01.1999 while in service and thereafter, during the course of the audit of the accounts of the Society for the year 1994-95 and 1996- 97 certain objections were raised with regard to the expenditure made by the deceased husband of the petitioner and pursuant thereto, an enquiry was initiated under Section 51 of the Act. Pending such enquiry, the impugned order of attachment of the petitioner’s immoveable property came to be passed. This Court while issuing rule nisi, by order dated 01.07.1999 in W.P.M.P.No.15536 of 1999, stayed the impugned proceedings and the same continued to be in operation althrough. In the circumstances, no further enquiry is necessary in the writ petition and suffice it to dispose of the writ petition with a direction to the respondents to dispose of the enquiry/proceedings, if any, pending pursuant to the audit objections following due process of law. Till the conclusion of the said proceedings, if any pending, the impugned order shall not be given effect to. Writ Petition is accordingly disposed of. No costs. _____________ G. ROHINI, J. Date: 15.03.2010 Ivd