{"id":235255,"date":"2020-09-03T18:45:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T13:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=235255"},"modified":"2020-09-18T13:04:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T07:34:17","slug":"bom-hc-are-co-operative-societies-now-a-part-of-constitutional-scheme-by-constitution-ninety-seventh-amendment-act-2011-hc-elucidates-in-a-cooperative-society-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/09\/03\/bom-hc-are-co-operative-societies-now-a-part-of-constitutional-scheme-by-constitution-ninety-seventh-amendment-act-2011-hc-elucidates-in-a-cooperative-society-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"Bom HC | Are Co-operative societies now a part of &#8216;constitutional scheme&#8217; by Constitution (Ninety-seventh Amendment) Act, 2011? HC elucidates in a Cooperative Society dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Bombay High Court:\u00a0<\/strong>A Division Bench of Ujjal Bhuyan and Abhay Ahuja, JJ., while addressing an issue with regard to the Cooperative Societies, made an observation that,<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" title=\"Page 14\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We find it a bit perplexing that for a dispute having its <span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">genesis in charging or billing of an individual shareholder member, drastic steps, such as, dissolution of the managing committee and appointment of Administrator have been resorted to.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Petition challenges the Order passed by the Dy. Registrar i.e. respondent 2 directing the Shyamrao Vitthal Co-operative Bank &#8212; respondent 4 not to allow the petitioner to operate the Society bank account and challenging the order passed by respondent 2 also directing respondent 4 Bank to permit the administrator appointed by respondent 2 <span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">to operate the bank account of Viddhisha Shantiniketan CHS Ltd. i.e. Respondent 7 Society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bench on perusal of the facts and circumstances of the present case noted that the present matter is a very hotly contested dispute between the office bearers of the Society on the one hand and an individual of the Society on the other hand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">High Court declined to entertain the present petition as the appeal is still pending for the present matter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Court directed respondent 3 to decide the pending appeal so that the day-to-day functioning of the Society is not hampered due to the dispute.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Till the disposal of the appeal is done Society shall be jointly managed under the Chairmanship of the petitioner and the Respondent 6 <span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">only for day to day affairs including payment of municipal taxes, light bills and other outgoings of Respondent 7 Society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bench added to its direction that respondent 4 shall unfreeze the account to allow the operation of the respondent 7 account.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Co-operative societies are now a part of the constitutional scheme as cooperative societies have been inserted in the Constitution of India as Part IX B by way of the Constitution (Ninety-seventh Amendment) Act, 2011 w.e.f 15-02-2012.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 14\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Therefore, in view of the above-stated position, co-operative societies should have the necessary space and autonomy to function and develop to its full potential. Also, interference in their matter should be avoided unless there is a serious statutory breach.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Court disposed of the present petition in view of the above terms. <span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">[Rambujarat Ramraj Chaurasia v. State of Maharashtra, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/i7n93ym1\"><b>2020 SCC OnLine Bom 901<\/b><\/a>, decided on 02-09-2020]<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bombay High Court:\u00a0A Division Bench of Ujjal Bhuyan and Abhay Ahuja, JJ., while addressing an issue with regard to the Cooperative Societies, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8808,"featured_media":74381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[3090,2518,43349,32375,29785],"class_list":["post-235255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-highcourts","tag-bank","tag-Bombay_High_Court","tag-cooperative-society","tag-dissolution","tag-law"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bom HC | Are Co-operative societies now a part of &#039;constitutional scheme&#039; by Constitution (Ninety-seventh Amendment) Act, 2011? 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