Bombay High Court

AMMANI RAJADAVIDversusTHE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA THROUGH THE PRINCIPAL SECRETARY MINISTRY OF COOPERATION

Decided: 22 June 2026
Disposal: DISPOSED OFF
Bench: M S KARNIK S M MODAK

Holding

The Court directed the Assistant Registrar, Co-operative Societies to decide the pending applications expeditiously, preferably within four weeks.

Summary

The petitioners, Ammani Rajadavid and others, filed a writ petition before the Bombay High Court seeking directions to the Assistant Registrar, Co-operative Societies (SRA) to decide three pending applications dated 28 October 2024, 7 December 2025 and 16 February 2026. The Court, after hearing counsel for both parties, found that the matter required a prompt administrative decision and ordered the SRA to dispose of the applications as expeditiously as possible, preferably within four weeks of the order. All contentions were kept open, and no substantive merits were adjudicated. The petition was subsequently disposed of. The order essentially directs administrative compliance rather than substantive judicial determination.

Issues considered

Whether the Assistant Registrar, Co-operative Societies should be directed by the Court to decide pending applications within a specified time frame

Subjects

writ petition
directions
co-operative societies
administrative law
expeditious disposal

Judgment

                                                               16-wp 2303-26.doc

            IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY
                ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION

                      WRIT PETITION NO. 2303 OF 2026

Ammani Rajadavid & Ors.                                       … Petitioners
        Versus
The State of Maharashtra & Ors.                               ... Respondents

                         __________________________

Ms. Ashwini B. Jadhav i/b Vaibhav Shah for the Petitioners.
Mr. Suraj Gupte, AGP for the Respondents-State.
Ms. Aarushi Yadav i/b Ms. Ravleen Sabharwal for the Respondent-SRA.
                      __________________________

                                 CORAM        : M. S. KARNIK AND
                                                S. M. MODAK, JJ.
                                 DATED        : 22nd JUNE, 2026.

P.C. :

1.       We have heard learned counsel for the petitioners.

2.       We have requested learned standing counsel for the SRA to appear

in the matter. We have gone through the memo of the petition with the

assistance of the learned counsel for the petitioners. We are satisfied that

this petition needs to be disposed of by issuing directions to respondent

No.2-Assistant Registrar, Co-operative Societies (SRA) to decide the

applications dated 28th October, 2024, 7th December, 2025 and 16th

February, 2026 mentioned in prayer clause (a) of the petition as

expeditiously as possible and preferably within a period of four weeks from

the date of communication of this order.


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                                          16-wp 2303-26.doc

3.     All contentions are kept open.

4.     The petition is disposed of.




(S. M. MODAK, J.)                       (M. S. KARNIK, J.)




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