Patna, Oct. 14: Sunil Kumar Singh, the former chairman of Bihar State Co-operative Marketing Union (Biscomaun) Limited, a society registered under the Bihar Co-operative Societies Act, 1935, and some elected delegates will file a petition in the high court soon seeking direction to the state government to restore Biscomaun’s board which was “wrongly” dissolved by the government.

The state government had issued a notification on October 10, 2011, removing Sunil from the chairman’s post in the light of a recent high court order that quashed the Bihar State Co-operative Amendment Act, 2008. The act constituted state election authority empowering it to hold elections for co-operative societies right from Poorest Areas Civil Society (PACS) to state co-operative banks to central co-operative banks and Biscomaun.

Singh has charged that the state government has acted in a “vindictive manner” in removing him from the post of chairman and appointed an administrator.

“This (removal) has been done at the behest of co-operative minister Ramadhar Singh to settle scores with me, as he thinks that I played a pioneering role in unravelling the criminal case in which the minister had been an absconder following which he (minister) had to resign,” Sunil told The Telegraph.

Ishwari Singh, the counsel for the petitioners, said: “We will file two petitions and a contempt petition in the Patna High Court against the state government, which wrongly interpreted the high court’s recent decision to seize the power of state election authority for holding elections of co-operative societies. Our petition is ready and it would be filed in the high court latest by Monday.”

It may be noted that a division bench of Chief Justice Rekha M. Doshit and Justice Jyoti Saran of the high court on September 23 quashed the Bihar State Co-operative Amendment Act, 2008.

The amendment act was inserted as sub-section 1 of Section 14A of the act that gave the state election authority the power to conduct elections for various co-operative societies such as PACS, co-operative banks, Biscomaun.

Ishwari submitted that the second petition would be filed in the high court for conducting the elections of Biscomaun, which had been withheld since May 2008 despite the election of delegates or formation of elected collegiums, which would elect chairman and board of directors.