ORDER :

1. This Civil Revision Petition has been filed by the respondents in S.O.P.No. 179 of 2018 against the order dt.11.08.2022 passed therein by the Principal District Judge at Bhongir.

2. For the sake of convenience, the parties are referred to as they are arrayed in the SOP.

3. Brief facts leading to the filing of the CRP are that the petitioner claiming to be a member of respondent No. 2 society has filed S.O.P.No. 179 of 2018 before the Principal District Judge’s Court, Bhongir under Section 6 of the Societies Registration Act, 1860 seeking to pass a decree granting mandatory injunction/direction to the respondents to convene general body meeting, to conduct general elections and to furnish statements of account and balance sheet of respondent No. 2 society to all its members.

4. The respondent No. 2 filed its counter/written statement objecting to the S.O.P. on two grounds:

(i) The petition under Section 6 of the Societies Registration Act, 1860 is not maintainable as the said Act has already been repealed by the Amendment Act 35 of 2001 which was effective from 09.08.2001 and that the same was named as the A.P. Societies Registration Act, 2001.

(ii) The petitioner in the SOP is