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I N THE HI GH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD

HON’BLE MRS. JUSTI CE SUREPALLI NANDA

WRI T PETI TI ON No.9592 of 2026

DATE: 31.03.2026

Betw een:

Sri Rama Tribal Mahila Sand Quarry MACS Ltd., Rep. by its Chief Promoters Smt. Podiyam Durga

…Petitioner And

The State of Telangana, Rep. by its Principal Secretary,

Cooperation Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad and others

…Respondents

ORDER

Heard Sri Gajanand Chakravarthi, learned

counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner and learned Assistant Government Pleader for

Cooperation appearing on behalf of the respondents.

2. The petitioner approached the Court seeking

prayer as under:

“…to issue an appropriate Wirt, Order or Direction, more particularly one in the nature of Writ of

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Mandamus, to declare the inaction of the respondent Nos. 2 & 3 herein in registering the cooperative society namely "Sri Rama Tribal Mahila Sand Quarry LCMACS Ltd" Kaliveru Grampanchayati, Cherla Mandal, Bhadradri Kothagudem District, in spite of proceeding No.RC1/AR/BCM/2025 dated -03-2026 issued by the respondent No.2 herein, as being illegal, arbitrary, unjust and unconstitutional and violation of Article 19(1) (c) of Indian Constitution, and to grant such other relief or reliefs as this Hon'ble Court deems fit

and proper in the circumstances of the case.”

3. The case of the petitioner in brief as per the averments made in the affidavit filed by the petitioner

in support of the present Writ Petition is as under:-

i) The petitioner, as Chief Promoter of the proposed society “Sri Rama Tribal Mahila Sand Quarry LCMACS Ltd.” under the Mutual Aided Cooperative Societies Act, 1995, submitted an application dated 07.02.2026 with all required

documents for its registration.

ii) Despite compliance with statutory requirements and repeated follow-ups, the respondents neither registered the society nor communicated any reasons for refusal within the

prescribed time.

iii) Though the District Cooperative Officer, through proceedings dated March 2026, permitted the petitioner to

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remit a share capital into suspense account, and the petitioner has also complied with the same, the respondents failed to process the registration, allegedly due to extraneous and non-statutory considerations. Aggrieved by the same, the petitioner approached this Court by filing the

present writ petition.

PERUSED THE RECORD:

A) The relevant portion of the proceedings of the respondent No.3-the Assistant Director, the District Cooperative Office, Bhadradri Kothagudem addressed to the Branch Manager, District Cooperative Central bank Ltd., Cherla, Bhadradri Kothagudem vide Rc.No.1 AR/ BCM/ 2025, dated -03-2026, is extracted

hereunder:

“With reference to the above cited, the Sri Rama Tribal Mahila Sand Quarry MACS Ltd., Kaliveru Grampanchayathi, Cherla Mandal, Bhadradri Kothagudem District. I have recommended for

organized the proposed society with (12) members.

Further, they collected their share capital Rs.100/- each and admission fee Rs.10/- each which comes total Rs. 1320/-. They wish to deposit that

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amount in your branch by the name of the proposed society of the Smt Podiyam Durga, Chief Promoter of Sri Rama Tribal Mahila Sand Quarry MACS Ltd., Kaliveru Grampanchayathi, Cherla Mandal, Bhadradri

Kothagudem District.

Therefore I request the Banch Manager, DCCB Ltd., Cherla kindly permit the chief promoter Smt Podiyam Durga to remit their share capital amount in suspense due to A/c the specimen signature of the Smt Podiyam Durga, Chief Promoter whose signature is

attested below.”

B) The relevant portion of the Memo issued by respondent No.2-the District Cooperative Office, Bhadradri Kothagudem District addressed to the respondent No.3-the Assistant Registrar, the District Cooperative Office, Bhadradri Kothagudem District vide Rc.No.878/ 25-C dated 16.02.2026, is extracted

hereunder:

“The immediate personal attention of the address entry is drawn to t