THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.26721 OF 2009 Date: 09.03.2010 Between: Sutarapu Pichaiah. … Petitioner and The Divisional Co-operative Officer/The Registrar of Societies, Hyderabad (East)/Golkonda Division, Manoranjan Complex, Exhibition Grounds, Hyderabad and three others. … Respondents. THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.26721 OF 2009 ORDER: Heard Sri N. Ashok Kumar, Learned Counsel for the petitioner, Sri K. Lakshmana Chary, Learned Counsel for the 4th respondent and the Learned Government Pleader for Co- operation. At their request the writ petition is being disposed of at the stage of admission. The petitioner is aggrieved by the action of the 3rd respondent society in canceling the sale deed executed in favour of the petitioner’s predecessor-in-title. He submitted a representation to the Divisional Co-operative Officer, Hyderabad requesting the latter to take action against the 3rd respondent society. The relief sought for in this writ petition is to declare the 1st respondent’s failure to initiate action, pursuant to the representation submitted by the petitioner on 06.11.2009, as arbitrary and illegal and for a consequential direction to the 1st respondent to take action against the 3rd respondent society. Sri N. Ashok Kumar, Learned Counsel for the petitioner, would assert that the Divisional Co-operative Officer, Golkonda Division is the Registrar under Section 61 of the A.P. Co-operative Societies Act and, as a dispute was raised by way of the representation dated 06.11.2009, the Divisional Co-operative Officer ought to have taken action under Section 62 of the Act. Under Section 61 of the A.P. Co-operative Societies Act, any dispute touching on the business of the society, which arises between members, or persons claiming through members, and the society shall be referred to the Registrar for his decision. Section 62 confers powers on the Registrar to take action on receipt of a reference of a dispute under Section 61. No proforma, prescribed under the Act and Rules for raising a dispute, has been brought to the notice of this Court. There is no reason why the representation dated 06.11.2009 should not be treated as a dispute raised under Section 61 of the A.P. Co-operative Societies Act. In case the Divisional Co-operative Officer is himself the Registrar he shall take action under Section 62 of the Act on the said representation submitted by the petitioner dated 06.11.2009. If, on the other hand, the Divisional Co-operative Officer is not the Registrar he shall forward the said representation to the Registrar who shall take action under Section 62 of the Act, at the earliest, in any event within four months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. The writ petition is disposed of accordingly. However, in the circumstances, without costs. Date: 09.03.2010 ___________________________ MRKR RAMESH RANGANATHAN, J