Case brief
What is this about?
Karnataka High Court writ petition (WP No.477 of 2025, CS-RES), decided 13.01.2025 by Justice K.S. Hemalekha. Petitioner K.M. Nataraju, removed as Director of a co-operative society by order dated 25.10.2024 of the Additional Registrar (R-3), had filed appeal RCS/DAP/D1/03/2024-25 before the Registrar of Co-operative Societies (R-2); with no interim relief forthcoming, he sought certiorari and interim relief. Petition disposed of on the State counsel's submission, with a time-bound direction to the Appellate Authority to consider and decide the stay application within two weeks. Keywords: co-operative society; removal of Director; Registrar of Co-operative Societies; stay application; time frame; Articles 226 and 227; certiorari.
What did the court decide?
Writ petition disposed of with direction to respondent No.2 to consider the petitioner's application for stay of the impugned order and dispose of the same within two weeks.