HOUSING SOCIETY ASKED TO PAY FOR THEFT IN MEMBER’S FLAT
Press Trust of India Posted online: Mon Aug 22 2011, 02:57 hrs
Mumbai : A Consumer Forum has ordered a housing society to pay Rs 5,000 to a flat owner for failing to check antecedents of two watchmen who went missing after allegedly stealing articles worth Rs 2.5 lakh at his flat.
Asking Silver Arch Mutual Cooperative Housing Society, located in suburban Vile Parle, to pay Rs 5,000 as compensation to the aggrieved flat owner, the Mumbai Suburban Consumer Redressal Forum observed that the society did not enquire about the personal details of the watchmen and also did not bother to inform police about their antecedents.
The society had also failed to keep their photographs in their record which may have helped police in identifying them, the forum noted.
“The society was not vigilant and was found deficient in providing security to the members,” observed the president of forum G L Deshpande and member Deepa Bidnurkar, while asking the society to pay compensation of Rs 5,000 to its member, Keth Fernandes.
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