Uttarakhand High Court
WPSS/2384/2022 on 7 May, 2026
Author: Manoj Kumar Tiwari
Bench: Manoj Kumar Tiwari
2026:UHC:3468
Office Notes,
reports, orders
or proceedings
SL.
Date or directions COURT'S OR JUDGE'S ORDERS
No.
and Registrar's
order with
Signatures
WPSS 1837/2025
WPSS 1981/2022
WPSS 2384/2022
WPSS 2396/2022
Hon'ble Manoj Kumar Tiwari, J.
Mr. Shubhang Dobhal, Advocate,
for the petitioners.
Mr. Dinesh Bankoti, Brief Holder,
for the State.
Mr. Naveen Chandra Tewari,
Advocate, for the respondent no. 6.
(2) Since the issue involved in all
these writ petitions is identical, therefore,
these are being heard and decided together
by this common judgment. However, for
brevity, facts of Writ Petition (S/S) No.
1837 of 2025 alone are being considered
and discussed here.
(3) Petitioners were employed with
different Primary Agricultural Cooperative
Societies in District Haridwar. Their services
were terminated by the Secretary of the
Cooperative Society concerned on the
ground that they were wrongly appointed.
Thus feeling aggrieved, petitioners have
approached this Court.
(4) Learned Counsels for the
respondents submit that writ petition
against Primary Co-operative Societies is
not maintainable, as they are not ‘State’
within the meaning of Article 12 of the
Constitution. They rely upon a judgment
rendered by Hon’ble Supreme Court in the
case of S.S. Rana v. Registrar, Co-operative
Societies and Another, reported as 2006
(11) SCC 634.
(5) This Court finds substance in the
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submission made by learned Counsel for
the respondents. Law is settled that writ
petition is maintainable only against a body
which comes within the definition of ‘State’.
Since Primary Agricultural Cooperative
Societies are neither funded nor controlled
by the State or Central Government,
therefore, merely because Registrar has
regulatory control over them as per Co-
operative Societies Act, will not make them
amenable to writ jurisdiction. Writ petitions
are, accordingly, dismissed as not
maintainable. Petitioners however shall be
at liberty to approach the appropriate
forum.
(Manoj Kumar Tiwari, J.)
7.5.2026
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PRABODH
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COURT OF UTTARAKHAND,
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KUMAR
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Date: 2026.05.07 18:37:00 +05’30’
2026:UHC:3468
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