ORDER :

This Writ Petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India is filed seeking to issue a Writ, order or direction more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus declaring the action of respondents 6 and 7 in suspending the petitioner through their minutes of meeting, dated 10.08.2022 is illegal, arbitrary and violative of principles of natural justice and against the procedure laid down in the Andhra Pradesh Cooperative Society Act, 1964 (for short ‘the Act’).

2. Heard Sri M. Vijay Kumar, Senior counsel appearing on behalf of Sri M. Chinnappa Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioner, learned Government Pleader for Co-operation appearing for respondents 1 to 3 as well as Sri Harish Kumar Rasineni, learned Standing Counsel appearing on behalf of respondents 6 & 7.

3. Facts in brief are as follows :

The petitioner was appointed as Attender on 30.10.1991 in Vidapanakal Farmer’s Service Co-operative Society Limited (for brevity ‘V.F.S.C.S’) of Anantapur District, and his services were regularized on 01.09.1996. Thereafter, in the year 2015, he was promoted as Staff Assistant and subsequently, got promotion as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of V.F.S.C.S on 04.06.2018.

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