Telangana High Court allows SCR coop elections

Hyderabad: Justice B. Vijaysen Reddy  of the Telangana High Court on Monday allowed the general body elections to be held to the South Central Railway Employees Co-operative Credit Society, Secunderabad.

Polling will be held at the headquarters on Tuesday and at line stations on October 12.

The court had earlier stayed the election on a petition by society member Dandu Ratnakar Kishore Kumar who questioning the appointment of a retired officer of the co-operative department as the returning officer and said only an assistant registrar or deputy registrar can be named to the post.

After the submissions of the SCR Employees Co-operative Credit Society on Monday, Justice B. Vijayasen Reddy vacated the stay orders, allowing the society’s 42,000 members, spread in five southern states, to elect 210 delegates. The delegates in turn will vote for 21 directors of the managing committee. The society had moved a writ appeal requesting the court to take up the matter as a priority.

When the matter was listed before a division bench, Chief Justice Alok Aradhe noticed that a single judge was hearing the matter. After Justice Vijaysen Reddy heard the matter, the writ appeal was closed.