JUDGMENT - R.A. JAHAGIRDAR, J.:---This petition under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution seeks to challenge the order of the Assistant Registrar of Co-operative Societies at Bombay by which he decided that the dispute raised by respondent No. 1 is a dispute within the meaning of section 91 of the Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act, 1960, hereinafter referred to as "the Societies Act." The Assistant Registrar who gave that decision on 13th of May, 1981 is jointed as the third respondent in this petition while the Third Co-operative Court established under section 91-A of the Societies Act has been joined as the fourth respondent. The second respondent in the petition is a member of the first respondent society and it is he who, according to the allegations made in the dispute, inducted the petitioner in one of the flat in the society.

2. It is not necessary for me to refer to the details of the dispute between the parties because the challenge in this petition is confined to the manner in which the order of 13th May, 1981 has been passed by the third respondent. The petitioner contends that the third respondent, namely the Assistant Registrar, has not given him a hearing be

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