Case Law Analysis
|Bombay High Court
IPC Overrides Co-op Societies Act | Any Person Can File FIR for Criminal Breach of Trust : Bombay HC (Nagpur Bench)
Bombay High Court rules that the Cooperative Societies Act does not bar any individual-including non-auditors-from filing an FIR under IPC Sections 408 and 420 for financial irregularities in cooperative societies. The judgment clarifies that criminal breach of trust is a public offence, not limited to statutory audit mandates.