Whether prosecution can be started against Co-operative society if notice under MRTP Act was issued against chairman of said society?

[Educator]

It is well-settled that expressions in a penal provision of law are to be construed strictly and in favour of the subject. The rules of interpretation clearly require that the language of a statute should be so construed that no case shall be held to fall within it which does not come within the reasonable interpretation of the statute, and in case of any doubt the cardinal principle is that the