SC Validates Society Elections as Defaulting Members Were Not Entitled to Notice

ADV Babasaheb Wasade & Ors. Vs Manohar Gangadhar Muddeshwar & Ors. (Supreme Court of India) The Supreme Court allowed the appeal challenging the Bombay High Court’s judgment, which had upheld the rejection of a change report relating to the election of the Executive Committee of Shikshan Prasarak Mandal, Mul, a society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 and the Bombay Public Trusts Act, 1950. The dispute arose after the President, Vice-President, Secretary and other key office bearers of the Society had passed away without fresh elections being held. Before the...