JUDGMENT - B.N. SRIKRISHNA, J.:---Rule returnable forthwith. Respondents through respective advocates waive service. By consent rule deemed to be on today's board for final hearing, called out and heard.

2. By this writ petition, the petitioner impugns an Order of the Assistant Registrar, Co-operative Societies, Patan, dated 19th August, 1992, by which the fourth respondent has been granted registration as a multi-purpose co-operative society.

3. The petitioner is a registered multi-purpose co-operative society, and is carrying on its business within the area of village Kumbhargaon, Taluka Patan, District Satara.

4. Sections 3 to 11 of The Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act, 1960, provide a detailed machinery for registration of different kinds of societies under the Act. Section 4 indicates the types of societies which are entitled to registration under the Act. Section 6 lays down the condition for registration of a society. Under section 8, the proposed society is required to apply to the Registrar in the prescribed form, accompanied by prescribed number of copies of the proposed by-laws and make payment of the prescribed registration fees. Section 9 provides that, if the Regis

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