law: Societies Registration Act, 1860
  9. Recovery of penalty accruing under bye-law
  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-laws 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 defendant shall reside, or
  
  the society shall be situate, as the governing body thereof shall deem
  
  expedient.