This Writ Petition was filed challenging the show cause notice of the Assistant Director of Fisheries, Bhimavaram, West Godavari District, issued vide letter No.12/A2/2008, dated 08.10.2009.

2. The petitioner’s society was registered with registration No.11-B, Kalipatnam (East) under the provisions of A.P. Cooperative Societies Act, 1964 (for short ‘the Act’). It was formed with 16 members including the members of the Managing Committee. The Managing Committee consists of 5 members and they are President, Secretary and three Directors. The 16 members are doing fishing with gill net, basket tramps and by erection of garikattus into drains and gurlachader natural drain. The society was formed on the recommendation of the Fisheries Development Officer, Mogalturu. The Assistant Director of Fisheries issued license to the society as per the rules and regulations framed in G.O.Ms.No.50, Agriculture, dated 18.01.1963 and as amended vide Government Memo No.324/Fish/70-3 dated 07.12.1970. While so, the Assistant Director of Fisheries issued proceedings No.12/A2/2008, dated 10.08.2009 removing all the 16 members from the primary membership of the society. Challenging the same, some m