ASHTHABHUJA PRASAD DUBEY Vs. ZILA BASIC SHIKSHA ADHIKARI

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Heard Sri Ashok Khare, senior advocate, assisted by Sri Rajesh Rai on behalf of the petitioner, Sri P. N. Saxena, senior advocate, assisted by Sri D. K. Singh for respondent Nos. 3 and 4 and standing counsel for the other respondents.

(2.) On 23rd September, 1968, a society in the name of Hari Shyam Khadi Gramodyog Seva Sangh was registered with the Registrar, Firms, Socicties and Chits with Registration No. 710/1968-69. The said society claims to have established in the year, 1968 a junior high school by the name of Uttar Pradeshiya Balika Vidyalaya Junior High School, Malak Harhar, district Allahabad. Sri Ashthabhuja Prasad Dubey was the Secretary. The said Junior High School was granted recognition as a Junior High School under order of the Regional Inspectress of Girls Schools, Allahabad, dated 24th January, 1970. The said Ashthabhuja Prasad Dubey was also the Manager of the said institution, The institution was brought under grant-in-aid list of the State in the year, 1972 and there was no dispute whatsoever in respect of the society or in respect of the institution at that stage.

(3.) By U. P. Act No. 52 of 1975. amendments were made in the U. P. Societies Registration Act. wherein it was provided that the societies shall not use the word "Sangh" in their name. As a consequence thereto the Assistant Registrar is said to have issued a notice to the petitioner on 23rd April, 1979, for deleting the word "Sangh" from the name of the society.