Civil Writ Petition No.18888 of 2011 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.18888 of 2011 Date of Decision:05.10.2011 Dilbag Singh ......Petitioner Versus Registrar, Co-operative Societies, Haryana and others .....Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MEHINDER SINGH SULLAR. Present: Mr.Anil Shukla, Advocate, for the petitioner. **** M EHINDER S INGH S ULLAR , J.(oral) The crux of the facts, which requires to be noticed for the limited purpose of deciding the sole controversy, involved in the instant writ petition and emanating from the record is that, The Panipat Co-operative Sugar Mills Limited (respondent No.2) requested the Registrar, Co-operative Societies, Haryana (respondent No.1) by way of letter dated 18.03.2011(Annexure P-2), to fix the date of election of its Board of Directors and enclosed the final list of Zones(Annexure P-3). 2. Having come to know, Zile Singh and Bhup Singh-respondent Nos.6 and 7 moved the representation(Annexure P-4) and raised the objection with regard to the holding of election contrary to the mandatory provisions of The Haryana Co-operative Societies Act, 1984(hereinafter to be referred as “the Act”). 3. Consequently, respondent No.1 directed the Managing Director of the Sugar Mill, to reserve the election zones for Women members and S.C.category, as per provisions of the Act, Rules and Bye-Laws, by means of impugned letter dated 01.09.2011(Annexure P-6), which in substance is as under:- “Please refer to the letters on the subject cited above, you have informed that there is no member of Scheduled Caste and Women for Civil Writ Petition No.18888 of 2011 2 which zones are reserved, it is violation of the Act. So, it is to inform you that a decision may be taken by the Zonal Committee regarding reservation of Women member and SC category member as per provisions of Act/Rules and Bye-Laws. After the decision of the Zonal Committee for reservation of the above categories then send the case to this office for fixation the date of election of the Managing Committee of the Sugar Mills, Panipat.” 4. Aggrieved by the impugned letter(Annexure P-6), petitioner-Dilbag Singh son of Ram Kumar, claiming himself to be a member of the Sugar Mill, preferred the present civil writ petition, under Articles 226/227 of the Constitution of India. 5. After hearing the learned counsel for the petitioner, going through the record with his valuable assistance and after deep consideration of the entire matter, to my mind, there is no merit in the present writ petition in this context. 6. As is evident from the record that, the Registrar has only directed the Managing Director of the Sugar Mill, to comply the mandatory provisions and to reserve the election zones for Women members and S.C.category, as per provisions of the Act, Rules and Bye-Laws and nothing else has been decided. In that eventuality, no ground for quashing the impugned letter(Annexure P-6), in exercise of writ jurisdiction of this Court, under Articles 226/227 of the Constitution of India, is made out in the obtaining circumstances of the case. 7. In the light of aforesaid reasons, as there is no merit, therefore, the instant writ petition is hereby dismissed as such. October 05, 2011 (MEHINDER SINGH SULLAR) seema JUDGE