The Karnataka High Court has strongly recommended a comprehensive revamp of the Karnataka Cooperative Societies (KCS) Act, 1959, and the KCS Rules, 1960, describing them as outdated, inconsistent, and ill-suited to the needs of a modern cooperative sector.

Justice Suraj Govindaraj, while dealing with a case involving voter lists and election disputes in the Idagundi multipurpose rural agricultural cooperative society in Uttara Kannada district, observed that “numerous incongruities pervade the law.”

He said the existing Act has become a “patchwork of piecemeal amendments introduced over the decades, leading to widespread confusion and litigation.

The court highlighted that issues such as membership eligibility, disqualification, voter rights, appointment of administrators, and surcharge

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