1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO.8212 OF 2008 Along with Civil Application No. 10 of 2009. Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court's orders or directions and Registrar's orders Court's or Judge's orders. Mr. P.S. Dani, for the petitioners. Mr S.N.Patil, AGP, for respondent nos 1,2 and 4. Mr S.S.Kamble, for respondent nos 5 to 7. CORAM : D.B.BHOSALE, J. DATE : 09/09/2009 PC: Heard learned counsel for the parties. This writ petition is directed against the order dated 8.12.2008 passed by the Divisional Joint Registrar, Co- operative Societies, Pune Division, Pune, by which stay application filed by the petitioner in Appeal No.75 of 2008 was rejected. The petitioner preferred the appeal against the order dated 10.11.2008 passed by the Deputy T 2 Registrar under section 78 of the Maharashtra Co0-operative Societies Act, 1960, by which the petitioners were removed from the Managing committee of the respondent-society. Pending the appeal, the petitioners filed an application for stay and that application was rejected by the impugned order dated 8.12.2008. This Court, while issuing a notice on 17.12.2008, had directed the parties to maintain status- quo and that order of status-quo has been continued from time to time and it operates till today. In view thereof, the learned counsel for the parties have agreed for the following order. (a) The order of status-quo passed by this Court on17.12.2008 shall remain operative till the disposal of Appeal No. 74 of 2008 pending before the Divisional Joint Registrar, Co-operative Societies Pune Division, Pune. The Divisional Joint Registrar shall decide the appeal as expeditiously as possible and preferably 3 within a period of four months from the date of receipt of this order on merits in accordance with law and uninfluenced by the observations made in the order impugned in the writ petition. With these observations, the writ petition is disposed of. In view of disposal of the writ petition, Civil Application No.10 of 2009 stands disposed of. (D.B.BHOSALE, J.) 4