IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) SATURDAY, THE SIXTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO:2769 of 2001 Between: 1 The Adilabad District Co-op. Marketing Society Limited, Rep. by S.Rajeshwar, Adilabad, a Society Registered Under the provisions of Andhra Pradesh Co-operative Societies Act, 1964 having its office at Adilabad. 2 The Nirmal Co-opertive Housing Society Limited, Rep. by its President Mr.Argula kamaladhar Gupta, Shastri Nagar, Nirmal. ..... PETITIONERS AND 1 A.P.State Co-operative Bank Limited, Rep. by its Managing Director, Troop Bazar, Hyderabad. 2 Deputy Registrar/Officer on Special Duty, The Adilabad District Co-o[perative Central Bank Limited, Adilabad. 3 District Co-operative Central Bank, Rep. by its General Manager, Adilabad. 4 Sale Officer, District Co-operative Central Bank, Branch Adilabad, Adilabad. 5 The District Collector, Adilabad District. .....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioners:MR.G.ANANDAM Counsel for Respondent No.2:MR. S.SURENDER REDDY The Court made the following : ORDER: This writ petition is ﬁled for a writ of certiorari to quash award, dated 01.10.1999 passed in Case No.1/1999 and consequential proceedings in E.P.No.1 of 1999 on the ﬁle of respondent No.2. At the hearing, Sri G.Anandam, learned counsel for the petitioners fairly submitted that the issue raised in this writ petition is no longer res integra in view of the judgment of the Supreme Court in Greater Bombay Cooperative Bank Limited v. United Yarn Tex Private Limited [1] wherein it reversed the Full Bench judgment of this Court in M.Babu Rao and others v. Deputy Registrar of Cooperative Societies/Oﬃcer on Special Duty, Vasavi Cooperative Urban Bank Limited, Malakpet, Hyderabad and others [2] and held that the authorities under the provisions of the Andhra Pradesh Cooperative Societies Act, 1964 (for short ‘the Act’) have jurisdiction to initiate proceedings for recovery of debts due to the cooperative banks. In view of the same, the writ petition is dismissed with liberty to the petitioners to question the impugned award, if they are entitled to do so, under the provisions of the Act. As a sequel to dismissal of main petition, interim order, dated 26.02.2001 is vacated, WPMP.No.3502 of 2001 is dismissed and WVMP.No.904 of 2006 is disposed of as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 6th SEPTEMBER, 2008. kvni [1] (2007) 6 SCC 236 [2] 2005(4) ALT 327