1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO.8216 OF 2009 A/w Civil Application No.2976 of 2009 in WP 8216/2009 (Dr.Sitaram Raghunath Kapse Vs. The Divisional Joint Registrar, Co-op. Society ,Mumbai and ors) Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court's orders or directions and Registrar's orders Court's or Judge's orders. Mr. R. S. Apte, Senior Counsel i/b Mr Samir A Vaidya, for the petitioner. Mr R.M.Patne, AGP, for respondent nos 1 and 2. Mr Jagdish G Aradwad (Reddy), for respondent no.3. Mr Mohan P Tekavde with Mrs Swati M Tekavde, Mr Sachin Dere, Mr Pramod Sonawane, for respondent no.7. Mr. Jakikore, Section Officer, Board of Administrators present. CORAM : D.B.BHOSALE, J. DATE : 05/12/2009 PC: Heard learned counsel for the parties. This writ petition challenges the orders passed by the authorities below in the proceedings arising from the order under section 78(1) of the Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act appointing a T 2 Board of Administrators on respondent no.5-society. Mr Patne, learned AGP, on instructions from the members of Board of Administrators, who are holding charge of the society since last about one year, submits that they shall set in motion the process of election of the society immediately and shall complete the same within a period of three months from today. His statement is accepted. In view of the order I propose to pass, I am not recording detailed reasons for disposing of this petition and the learned counsel for the parties have also agreed for the following order. (i) The Administrators shall initiate election process within a period of four weeks from today and shall complete the same within a period of eight weeks therefrom. The Administrators shall hand over charge of the society to the newly elected body within a period of 48 hours from the date of declaration of result of 3 the election. The petitioner and the other respondents are directed to cooperate with the Administrators to complete the election process. It is open to the Administrators to approach MHADA, if necessary, to secure a list of members of the society. If they approach the MHADA, the concerned officer of the MHADA shall make the list of members from their record available to the administrators immediately. Parties have agreed that they shall not raise any dispute about the membership and will allow the Administrators to hold election as per the list of the members made available by the MHADA. With these directions, the writ petition is disposed of. In view of this order, the Civil Application stands disposed of. 4 While passing this order, I shall not be understood to have examined merits of the case. (D.B.BHOSALE, J.) 5