Recovery of penalty accruing under bye-law is defined under Section 9 of Societies Registration Act 1860
Whenever by any bye-law duly made in accordance with the rules and regulations of the society, or, if the rules do not provide for the making of bye-laws, by any bye-law made at a general meeting of the members of the society convened for the purpose (for the making of which the concurrent votes of three-fifths of the members present at such meeting shall be necessary), any pecuniary penalty is imposed for the breach of any rule or bye-law of the society, such penalty, when accrued, may be recovered in any Court having jurisdiction where the defendants shall reside, or the society shall be situate, as the governing body thereof shall deem expedient.
SOCIETIES REGISTRATION ACT 1860
Section 1 - Societies formed by memorandum of association and registration
Section 2 - Memorandum of association
Section 3 - Registration and fees
Section 4 - Annual list of managing body to be filed
Section 5 - Property of society how vested
Section 6 - Suits by and against societies
Section 7 - Suits not to abate
Section 8 - Enforcement of judgment against society
Section 9 - Recovery of penalty accruing under bye-law
Section 10 - Members liable to be sued as strangers
Section 11 - Members guilty of offences punishable as strangers
Section 12 - Societies enabled to alter, extend, or abridge their purposes
Section 13 - Provision for dissolution of societies and adjustment of their affairs
Section 14 - Upon a dissolution no member to receive profit
Section 16 - Governing body defined
Section 17 - Registration of societies formed before Act
Section 18 - Such societies to file memorandum, etc., with Registrar of Joint-stock Companies