law: Companies Act, 1956
  Sec 144    -     Right
  
  to inspect copies of instruments creating charges and company's register of
  
  charges. 
  (1) The copies of instruments creating charges
  
  kept in pursuance of section 136, and the register of charges kept in pursuance
  
  of section 143, shall be open during business hours (but subject to such
  
  reasonable restrictions as the company in general meeting may impose, so that
  
  not less than two hours in each day are allowed for inspection) to the
  
  inspection of any creditor or member of the company without fee, at the
  
  registered office of the company.
  (2) The register of charges kept in pursuance
  
  of section 143 shall also be open, during business hours but subject to the
  
  reasonable restrictions aforesaid, to the inspection of any other person on
  
  payment of a fee of such sum as may be prescribed for each inspection, at the
  
  registered office of the company.
  (3) If the inspection of the said copies or
  
  register is refused, the company, and every officer of the company who is in
  
  default, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees
  
  and with a further fine which may extend to two hundred rupees for every day
  
  during which the refusal continues.
  (4) The Company Law Board may also by order
  
  compel an immediate inspection of the said copies or register.