Sri Arabinda Biswas v. The Registrar Of Cooperative Societies And ORS.
Ct. 24 Item No.455 15.09.2023 (Suvendu) WPA 16834 OF 2023 Arabinda Biswas Vs.
The Registrar of Cooperative Societies & Ors.
Mr. Subhajit Panja ....for the petitioner Mr. P.K.Roy Mr. Ankit Sureka Mr. Asis Dutta ...for the respondent nos. 2 & 3 Mr. K.K.Pathak ...for the respondent nos. 4 & 5 The petitioner prays for a direction upon the Joint Registrar of Cooperative Societies (Kolkata Metropolitan Area Housing Cell) to pass an order in respect of the enquiry that was conducted.
Learned advocate representing the Society submits, upon instruction that, no enquiry was conducted by the concerned Joint Registrar and only a meeting was held.
It appears from the submissions made on behalf of the parties that the parties are yet to be made aware of the fate of the meeting/ hearing.
The Joint Registrar of Cooperative Societies being the respondent no. 3 herein is accordingly
directed to consider the representation of the petitioner dated 20th February, 2023 in accordance with law after giving reasonable opportunity of hearing to all the necessary parties at the earliest but positively within a period of eight weeks from the date of communication of this order.
The parties will be at liberty to produce all documents in support of their claim.
The aforesaid respondent shall pass a reasoned order and communicate the same to the parties immediately thereafter.
It is made clear that this Court has not entered into the merit of the claim of the petitioner and all points are left open to be decided by the aforesaid respondent at the time of consideration of the representation of the petitioner.
Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner is directed to forward a copy of the representation dated 20th February, 2023 to the aforesaid respondent at the time of communicating the order of this Court.
The writ petition stands disposed of.
Urgent photostat certified copy of this order, if applied for, be given to the parties on usual undertakings.
(Amrita Sinha, J.)