Calcutta High Court  has declared  the amendment to Section 36 of West Bengal Cooperative Societies Act, 2010  as unconstitutional and illegal.
The aforesaid amendment brought by West Bengal Assembly reduced the tenure of which the tenure of  boards of cooperative banks and societies  from 60 months to 36 months.
Boards of several cooperative banks and societies were dissolved citing the amendment. Appearing for some of the affected parties, senior advocate Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya submitted that the amendment was arbitrary in nature and that it was made with vindictive purposes and as such it be declared illegal and unconstitutional.
The government had earlier this year amended section 36 of the Act, reducing the tenure of the boards of the cooperatives.