In Brief
A housing cooperative society unilaterally executed an Extinguishment Deed cancelling a plot allotment made decades earlier to a member's mother, and registered subsequent sale deeds. The member's heir challenged this by writ petition in the High Court, which dismissed it as the appellant had: (1) already filed a dispute under the Cooperative Societies Act before the competent statutory forum; (2) accepted a compromise settlement with consideration; and (3) pursued multiple parallel proceedings. The Supreme Court upheld the High Court's dismissal, holding that a writ petition cannot be used to declare private deeds void when alternative statutory remedies exist and the appellant has engaged in multiplicity of actions. The Court clarified that the Registrar functions administratively, not quasi-judicially, and cannot cancel documents post-registration. Disputed factual questions about the Society's authority to cancel the allotment must be resolved by the statutory forum, not by writ.
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