Thane: Forum Orders Housing Society To Pay Rs 20,000 To Flat Owner Over Car Parking

The forum also directed the society to conduct a general body meeting and table a proposal for seeking approval for the complainant’s car parking on the society premises.

Thane : Additional District Consumer Grievances Redressal Forum recently pronounced a ‘part-judgement’ directing office-bearers of Indulekha cooperative housing society in Sector 9A, , to Rs 20,000 as compensation to the owner of a flat.

Flat owner Deepak Thakkar, who works at a Vashi mall, had complained against the society in January 2020 for not allowing him to park his car on the society premises.

The compensation includes Rs10,000 towards damages that Thakkar’s car suffered and Rs10,000 for litigation expenses. The forum also directed the society to conduct a general body meeting and table a proposal for seeking approval for the complainant’s car parking on the society premises.The forum’s ‘part judgement’ also stated that the society office-bearers had not adopted the society’s bye-laws.

The forum bench, presided over by chairperson Ravindra Nagare and members Gauri Kapse and Sheetal Petkar, observed that when the car parking slots were less, the problem had to be solved by formulating bye-laws so that allotment is made either by rotation or on periodical basis to ensure principles of natural justice, equity and good conscience are observed.

Thakkar said, “When I parked my new car on the society premises, on June 12, 2016, the society office-bearers served me a notice, requesting me to park it outside and my parking will be allowed only after the committee's decision shortly. Hence, I had to park on the road near my society.”

He said that thereafter, window panes of his car were broken, and wheels were stolen. “For two months, I waited for the society committee’s decision, but they did not revert. On August 6, 2016, another society member parked his vehicle in the society compound in the space where I used to park mine,” he said.

“So, I wrote to the society chairman and secretary about their rule for vehicle parking being biased, but they ignored it. In July 2019, another car of a member was parked on the society premises,” he said.

Eventually, he lodged a complaint with Thane consumer court, which ruled in his favour on October11, 2021.forum’s

The forum’s judgement got delayed due to Covid, the forum clarified it in the judgement.

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