The Bombay High Court has struck down the Registrar’s orders against Aether Co‑operative Housing Society (WRIT PETITION (ST) NO.19688 OF 2025, decided on 10.12.2025) , holding that the Co-operative Registrar simply did not have the legal power to decide a dispute about how maintenance was calculated and recovered from members. What started the dispute? Some flat owner members in the Society went to the Deputy Registrar and complained that the Society had raised maintenance bills in a way that went against its own bye‑laws. On that basis, they asked for a declaration that the Society could not recover those disputed maintenance amounts from them. What the Registrar did? Acting on this complaint of some members, the Deputy Registrar used Section 154B‑27 of the Maharashtra Co‑operative Societies Act, 1960, along with Model Bye‑law 174 and ordered the Society to refund the maintenance collected from May 2022 and issue fresh, revised bills. Being aggrieved by this order,...
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