Bombay HC Restores Registration of Housing Society Federation
MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court has reinstated the registration certificate of a housing society federation, stating that the decision to deregister it was legally “unsustainable.” Justice Amit Borkar emphasized, “Judicial discretion cannot be exercised to reward falsehood,” noting that the deregistration occurred following a seven-year delay, with the appeal based on evidently false claims without credible evidence. The Federation of Cooperative Housing Societies from Borivli West challenged an April 2025 order by the divisional joint registrar of Cooperative Societies, which annulled its status as a ‘Cooperative Society’—a designation granted in January 2018 under the Maharashtra Cooperative Societies Act. The petition…