On May 24, I elucidated that in a co-operative society that has passed a redevelopment resolution by majority, the decision of the majority members is final and binding on the minority dissenting members. Further, the society’s general body is supreme. Merely because the terms and conditions of the development agreement are not favourable/acceptable to some minority members, cannot be the basis for not abiding by the decision of the overwhelming majority. This position in law makes one wonder whether, in a cooperative society, the brute majority can bulldoze the minority. On analysing the law, we can say that the decisions of the general body taken by the majority are binding, only and until they........

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