law: Societies Registration Act, 1860
  11. Members guilty of offences punishable as
  
  strangers
  Any member of the society who shall steal,
  
  purloin, or embezzle any money or other property, or willfully, and maliciously
  
  destroy or injure any property of such society, or shall forge and deed, bond,
  
  security for money, receipt, or other instrument, whereby the funds of the
  
  society may be exposed to loss, shall be subject to the same prosecution, and,
  
  if convicted, shall be liable to be punished in like manner, as any person not
  
  a member would be subject and liable to in respect of the like offence.