Co-operative housing society is mishandling audit, elections, maintenance dues, or builder handover.

• RTI Act, 2005 §6, §7(1), §2(h) (Thalappalam functional test).
• State Cooperative Societies Act.
• Thalappalam Service Coop Bank v. State of Kerala (SC, 2013) — coop is public authority only if substantially Government-financed.
• Bombay HC Cooperative Bank Fraud (2022) — Registrar records disclosable.

To:
The Public Information Officer (PIO),
[Office name + address].

Subject: RTI under §6 — Co-operative Housing Society query

Sir/Madam,

Under the RTI Act, 2005, kindly provide:
1. Status of audit of [SOCIETY NAME] for FY [YEAR].
2. Action on complaint No. [NUMBER] dated [DATE] re [MAINTENANCE / ELECTION / etc.].
3. Approved list of office-bearers + election record.
4. Society bye-laws as registered.
5. Action against managing committee (if any) under §[STATE ACT SECTION].
Rs. 10 IPO enclosed.

Yours faithfully,
[Name]
[Address + phone + email]
[Date]

• Day 31 First Appeal.
• Day 76 Second Appeal to SIC.
• Parallel Cooperative Court; Consumer Forum for builder-society dispute.

• Thalappalam Service Coop v. State of Kerala (SC, 2013) — Coop = public authority only if substantially financed.
• Bombay HC Cooperative Bank Fraud (2022) — Registrar records disclosable.

• Filing RTI directly to society — only Registrar covered.
• Forgetting society registration number.

Usually no. The Registrar of Cooperatives is. File to Registrar for society records.

• Encroachment RTI
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• RTI — 25 questions answered

• RTI Act, 2005 — full text.
• Citation chain in body.
• Citizen Charter of the relevant authority.
• Case-law database at /cases/search.

Last reviewed: 23 April 2026.