IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE P.N.RAVINDRAN FRIDAY, THE 3RD JUNE 2011 / 13TH JYAISHTA 1933 WP(C).No. 33178 of 2010(V) ------------------------------------- PETITIONER(S): ---------------------- KARIKKAMANCODE SERVICE CO-OP. BANK LTD. NO.1119, KUDAYAL P.O., REP. BY ITS PRESIDENT. BY ADV. SRI.B.S.SWATHY KUMAR SMT.P.A.ANITHA SMT.S.MEERA SMT.M.G.AISHWARYA RESPONDENT(S): --------------- THE JOINT REGISTRAR OF CO-OP. SOCIETIES (GENERAL), THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. R1 BY GOVERNMENT PLEADER SRI.P.M.MANOJ THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING BEEN FINALLY HEARD ON 03/06/2011, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: tss P.N.RAVINDRAN, J. ----------------------------------------- W.P(C).No.33178 of 2010 ----------------------------------------- Dated this the 3rd June, 2011 JUDGMENT The petitioner, a co-operative society, has filed this writ petition challenging Ext.P1 order passed by the Joint Registrar of Co-operative Societies (General) Thiruvananthapuram, staying the steps taken by the society to fill up two posts of Peon and two posts of Salesman. In the year 2005 also a similar order of stay was passed when the petitioner society took steps to fill up one post of Peon and one post of Salesman. The then President of the petitioner society thereupon filed W.P(C)No.33763 of 2006. In view of Ext.P1 order which is under challenge in this writ petition and the long efflux of time, I have by judgment delivered today dismissed the said writ petition as infructuous. A reading of Ext.P1 order indicates that it is an ad interim order of stay passed by the Joint Registrar of Co-operative Societies on a complaint dated 8.9.2010 filed before him by Sri.Vijayan and others. A copy thereof is on record as Ext.R1(b). As the order impugned is only W.P(C) NO.33178/2010 -:2:- an interim order passed on that complaint and the complainants are not parties to this writ petition, I am of the opinion that the only relief that can be granted is to direct the Joint Registrar of Co-operative Societies to pass final orders in the matter expeditiously. In such circumstances I dispose of the writ petition with the following directions: The petitioner shall within two weeks from the date of receipt of a certified copy of this judgment, file an appropriate representation by way of reply to Ext.R1(b) complaint. The Joint Registrar of Co-operative Societies shall thereafter consider Ext.R1(b) complaint as well as the reply submitted by the petitioner and pass final orders thereon after affording the signatories to Ext.R1(b) complaint and the President/ Secretary of the petitioner society an opportunity of being heard. Final orders in the matter shall be passed expeditiously and in any event within two months from the date of production of a certified copy of this judgment. P.N.RAVINDRAN, Judge. ahg. P.N.RAVINDRAN, J. --------------------------- W.P(C).No.33178 of 2010 ---------------------------- JUDGMENT 3rd June, 2011