IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.1571 of 2008 Date of Decision: 4.2.2008 Ramesh Chander and others Petitioners Versus Additional Registrar (G) Cooperative Societies, Punjab and others Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JASBIR SINGH HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JASWANT SINGH Present: Shri M.S.Bedi, Advocate for the petitioners Jasbir Singh, J. (Oral) Notice of motion. Shri A.S.Khaira, Advocate accepts notice on behalf of respondent No.4. Counsel for the parties heard. Vide order (Annexure P/2) dated 17.12.2007, Board of Directors of respondent No.4 was removed and an Administrator was appointed to run the affairs of respondent No.4. The petitioners, who are members of the Board, went in appeal against order, referred to above and vide order dated 9.1.2008, the appellate authority granted interim stay in their favour by staying operation of that order. Appeal is now pending for hearing on 20.2.2008. In the meantime, respondent No.3, who was appointed as an Administrator of respondent No.4, filed an application for Civil Writ Petition No.1571 of 2008 vacation of stay and vide order (Annexure P/5) dated 23.1.2008, interim stay order was vacated by the appellate authority. We are of the opinion that the order passed is not justified in view of the fact that appeal is pending for hearing on 20.2.2008 and the same could have been disposed of by hearing both the parties, instead of vacating the stay order. An elected board of directors has been ordered to be removed vide order Annexure P/2. The petitioners have raised many questions with regard to passing of the order (Annexure P/2), which need detailed determination by the appellate authority. In view of facts of this case, we dispose of this writ petition, quash order (Annexure P/5) and allow the stay order to continue as granted by the appellate authority vide order dated 9.1.2008 (Annexure P/3) till disposal of the appeal. Appellate authority is directed to decide appeal may be on 20.2.2008 or within a week thereafter. (Jasbir Singh) Judge February 04, 2008 (Jaswant Singh) gk Judge 2