Smt Susheela N Vadhyar v. the State of Karnataka
Case brief
What is this about?
Karnataka High Court, Bengaluru; WP No. 531 of 2025 (CS-RES); decided 16.04.2026 by Justice E.S. Indiresh. Petitioner Susheela N Vadhyar sought a writ (Arts. 226 & 227) directing Respondents including Vishwabharathi House Building Co-operative Societies to consider her representation/legal notice dated 10.06.2024 (Annexure-H). Court held the co-operative society is not a State instrumentality under Article 12 of the Constitution; writ petition dismissed without relief. Keywords: co-operative society writ maintainable/instrumentality of State, Article 12, representation/legal notice, dismissal.
What did the court decide?
This Court cannot issue a direction to Respondent No.2-Society because the Society is not an Instrumentality of the State under Article 12 of the Constitution of India. ¶33