JUDGMENT

W.P.(C)No.32636 of 2024 has been filed challenging Ext.P4 order initiating enquiry under Section 65 of the Kerala Co-operative Societies Act, 1969 (in short ‘the 1969 Act’), while W.P.(C) No.29330 of 2025 has been filed challenging the report under of the 1969 Act. 2. One of the questions considered by the Full Bench of this Court in Kudayathoor Service Co-operative Bank Ltd. v. Joint Registrar of Co-operative Societies (General), 2022 (3) KLT 222 (FB), was regarding the stage at which an order / report of enquiry under of the 1969 Act could be challenged. This Court held as follows:

17. As noted, Section 66 of the Act empowers the Registrar, on his own motion or on the application of a creditor of a society, to inspect or direct any person authorised by him by order in writing in its behalf to inspect the books of the society. Similarly, Section 65 empowers the Registrar, on his own motion or on any of the circumstances mentioned in clauses (b) to (f) of sub-section (1) of , to order an inqury by himself or by a person authorised by an order in writing into the constitution, working into the constitution, working and financial condition of the society, if he is satisfied t