T.V.Pillai 27 August 2016

Nuisance created by a member in housing society

A member in our society gets in to the act of going down to the security during even odd hours (1AM, 2AM, 3AM, 5AM and questions the security guard about his duty. Many a times fires him. The member also has the habit of telling the security guard to leave the job if he is not inetersted in doing the job. One day morning at 4.50AM, when the guard was being fired by this nuisance maker, in a fit of anger, the gaurd handed over the bunch of keys to this trouble maker and left. When the secretary and the chiarman sent another guard to this trouble maker's flat to fetch the keys, the trouble maker refused to return the keys. The trouble maker told the guard that the chairman & secretary to come to the flat to collect the keys. This trouble maker has the habit of calling normal occurance in a housing society or celebration as some emergency and creates a scene. (Example: Garba with police permission or guests leaving from the society in their vehicle after a day long pooja at 11.30PM, the list is endless). How do we deal with this member with lots of negative attitude towards others.

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Agastya 28 August 2016

If your society is registered under societies act then president, secretary and treasurer can make a law barring him from even stepping out of the house into common passage. This is an Adhoc measure fully legal you can make immediately. You may alternately get duplicate keys done for all those locks or new locks totally and send a demand notice bill for those costs. Next make an official by-law in your society rules document. This will say nobody other than office bearers can touch apartment keys. With some penalties. Obviously an all owners meeting (GBM) must be called and get majority vote. This meeting notice will also go to the trouble maker. Let him face all other owners if he had courage. In any case make the law and pass with majority. Record the attendance and meeting minutes accurately. He can't come out of his door. Per society registration act those 3 office bearers are like owners of the building for their elected terms. Even if trouble maker lodges a police case they can't change a majority passed rule. Then secretary, president and treasurer call for committee meeting that is, office bearers for that term and pass more majority rules barring water and power to that flat. Here you don't need to involve every single owner. It is 100% legal. If you are registered under apartment owners act of your state, you can make the same majority laws as above. But you can't cut off his water and power unless he is also a part of the meeting which decides this. He will obviously oppose. But if all others agree then water and power can be cut.