Nagpur/Mumbai, Aug. 5 -- : The Maharashtra Cooperation Department does not maintain a centralised database or tracking mechanism for FIRs registered in cases of financial irregularities, fraud and embezzlement involving cooperative institutions, according to a reply obtained under the Right to Information (RTI) Act.
The disclosure came in response to an RTI application filed by Sanjay Thool, president of the Association of Social and RTI Activists (ASRA), who sought details of FIRs registered against cooperative institutions over the past 20 years, the names of the institutions involved and the outcomes of related court cases.
The office of the Commissioner for Cooperation and Registrar of Cooperative Societies, Maharashtra, stated that s...