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May 2016 to Mar 2017
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In May 2016, Election in my society was held illegally without voting and without informing all the society members. Many members including me came to know about elections only after the AGM was announced by the new committee.
In AGM held in Sep 2016, illegally elected managing committee passed the Illegal decision of raising NOC charges to 40% and Transfer charges to Rs. 1 Lakh. According to law, Maximum allowed limit for NOC and transfer charges is 10% and Rs. 25,000 respectively.
I was the only one in the society to raise objections against these illegal decisions and refused to pay illegal charges.
In Mar 2017, I sent a written notice to managing committee against these illegal decisions and illegally conducted election.
Tip: - Before approaching the Dy. Registrar with your complaint against the society, send at least one written notice to the managing committee of the society
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Notice sent to society for no election and illegal decisions in AGM
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Aug 2017 to Mar 2018
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As managing committee refused to listen to my complaint,
I complained against the society committee before the Dy. Registrar office.
Multiple hearings happened.
To present their case before Dy. Registrar, Society managing committee brought in their auditor who had connections with Dy. Registrar. As expected, this auditor used his influence in the Dy. Registrar office to dismiss the complaint filed by me.
Tip: - As most of the auditors frequently visit local Dy. Registrar office for submitting auditing reports and to represent different societies before the Dy. Registrar, most of them have connections with officers of local Registrar offices through whom they get their work done. As you may have heard and already know, these auditors often bribe the govt officers to get their work done easily and quickly.
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Complaint filed in Registrar office for no election and illegal decisions in AGM
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Apr 2018 to Mar 2019
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As I was preparing to file appeal, other society members called me and said “We will together file a complaint before Dy. Registrar on dissolving the managing committee and then the newly elected committee will solve your grievances ”
Members collectively filed complaint before Dy. Registrar to dissolving society committee and conduct fresh elections. As a result, managing committee was dissolved by Dy. Registrar in Mar 2019.
Tip: - It is always better to include as many members as possible in your complaint. If complaint is filed by multiple members, then Dy. Registrar is under pressure to act against the society committee. If complaint is filed only by a single member, then registrar can easily dismiss the complaint even if your complaint is full of merits and exposes serious corruption in the society (as it happened in my case above)
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Transfer receipts proving society was collecting illegal transfer charges
Hand-written election report proving election was not conducted as per the rules of SCEA
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Apr 2019 to Mar 2020
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Society came under the administrative rule of Dy. Registrar office. Members kept asking administrator to conduct elections but as the motive of the administrator was to loot society funds, he kept making excuses to defer elections. This administrator also continued applying illegal charges of 40% NOC charges and Rs. 1,00,000 transfer charges on all members of the society
Tip: As per the law, Administrator is supposed to conduct elections within 6 months without fail. No administrator can rule the society for more than 6 months. However, as the administrator receives salary from the society every month (in addition to his govt salary from Dy. Registrar office), administrator often don’t conduct elections in 6 months so as to earn more and more money from the society. If the administrator is not conducting election within 6 months, then you should immediately complain to Dy. Registrar and Divisional Joint registrar, otherwise society funds will be wasted/looted by administrator. In our case, more than Rs. 30 lakhs of society funds were wasted/looted as the administrator didn’t conduct election for almost 3 years.
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Notice sent to administrator on corruption and illegal maintenance charges
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Apr 2020 to Dec 2021
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Coronavirus started. Administrator again got an excuse of postponing elections and kept looting the society till the society funds became less than 1 lakh. To loot more money, administrative officer also initiated recovery proceedings against members, who were refusing to pay maintenances charges as they were not receiving services from the society.
In Oct 2021, When I warned administrator of complaining to his higher authorities on not conducting elections, then he conducted elections but discreetly without informing all the society members. Elections were conducted in such a secret manner that only few members of the society were informed and as only those few members came on day of elections, they were elected unopposed as there were not enough members to vote or stand for elections. Administrator conducted elections in such a fraudulent way to ensure that the new society committee don’t initiate any actions against the scams of Rs.30+ lakhs done by him.
Tip:- Always keep track of how the elections are conducted in your society. Election is a 3+ months process involving 10 to 12 stages. However, many societies don’t follow all these stages and directly conduct elections on an uninformed day to elect themselves as the chairman, secretary, and treasurer of the society unopposed. If the society is conducting elections in such a way, then it is obvious that the intent of the newly elected committee is to loot society funds or support the illegal activities in the society
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Audit report showing Rs. 20 lakhs of society was wasted/looted by administrator
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Jan 2022 to Sep 2022
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I approached new committee for actions against scams of administrator. Managing committee refused to take any actions citing excuses that “Wait as we haven’t received all society documents from Registrar office”.
As I was continuously targeting new committee for getting elected fraudulently and not taking actions against scams and reversal of illegal charges, I was removed from society WhatsApp group. Instead of acting to my complaint, managing committee started defaming me in the society and sent multiple false recovery notices.
I also came to know that the returning officer who was sent by Dy. Registrar office for conducting elections in the society, has been hired as the manager/accountant of the society by the corrupt managing committee just after elections. Isn’t this the proof of fraud in elections as the returning officer conducted election fraudulently to get himself appointed as the manager of the society so as to earn/loot money from the society?
Society committee also tried to harass me and my tenant via bogus complaints on dog issue. Society committee sent me multiple complaints threatening me of consequences if any of the street’s dogs fed by my tenant bite anyone in the society.
Tip:- Always check the returning officer conducting elections is a honest and unbiased person. If he is a corrupt person, then he will do fraud in elections to elect only those members who bribes him or give him some benefits. Nomination forms of other members will be rejected by him.
In my case, benefit to returning officer was in the form of a job of the society manager/accountant. Other benefits may be in the form of commission for every scam that happens in the society. This is subject to investigation
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Letter showing administrator appointed his own officer to conduct elections
Reply to notice by society commitee who were harassing me and my tenant for feeding/protecting stray dogs
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Oct 2022 to Jan 2023
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After I sent a legal notice to society, the managing committee complained that only I am raising complaints. Others are happy with their work.
Then, I temporarily resigned from membership from society stating that i don't want to be a member of a fraud society and completely stopped paying maintenance charges. Meanwhile, Election officer(who became manager of society after conducting fraudulent elections) hired his own wife as the lawyer of the society. As his wife was also working in the Dy. register office in capacity of returning officer and govt empanelled auditor, she had a good influence in dy. Registrar office. This lawyer got bar license in 2022 and had zero legal experience, still she was appointed as lawyer of the society. Why any society will hire an unexperienced lawyer? It's obvious that she was hired as she had good connections in dy. Registrar office and has assured order will be passed without going through the merit of the case.
Tip:- If you are not happy with the services offered by the society, then you can resign from the membership of the society as per the Bye Law No 27(a) of MCS act. Note that, upon resignation, society may terminate all their services like parking, water supply etc. If you cannot manage all services on your own, then don’t resign from the membership of the society.
In my case, as I had my own parking space and water supply in my bungalow, I wasn’t taking any services from the society.
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Final notice of recovery with false claims sent by society
Reply to final notice stating that i don't owe a single rupee to society
Resignation letter to society
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Apr 2023 to Jun 2023
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Through the returning officer-cum govt empanelled officer(Husband-wife as explained above) of Dy.Registrar, Society committee filed a false recovery case against me before the Dy. Registrar office.
I filed 100’s of arguments with evidence in 50+ pages. But Dy. Registrar was so biased that he refused to listen to any of my arguments/requests and listened only to the society lawyer, who had a considerable clout in Dy. Registrar office as she worked there as an auditor-cum-election officer.
I also filed applications for dissolution of society giving evidences of scams by society and officers of registrar office but registrar never heard this application. Not even a single hearing happened on my application. I knew it very well that Dy. Registrar will supress my applications that highlight corruption of his own office.
What was the purpose of hearing if Dy. Registrar didn’t want to hear any arguments? He should have passed order straightway without calling me for hearing and wasting hours of my time on each hearing
Tip:- If you have a doubt that Registrar is biased and corrupt, then file more written applications and arguments before the Dy. Registrar office. If the Dy. Registrar refuses to hear your applications or arguments, then it will become a proof that he was biased. If you are able to show that the Dy. registrar was biased and partial, then his orders will not be valid legally and will be set aside by higher courts. Never forget to take acknowledgement of applications/Documents filed by you in Dy. Registrar office
If you have very strong evidences that registrar is corrupt, then you can directly contact Anti-corruption Bureau(ACB) and submit your evidences to ACB. I got the following image from the office of Divisional joint registrar
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Filed multiple replies proving legally that i don't owe a single rupee to society but corrupt registrar refuse to listen any of these arguments
Filed dismissal application attaching court orders that states illegally elected commitee have no locus standi to file case but corrupt registrar refused to even see court order.
Filed dismissal application with 7 arguments on why the case filed against me is not maintainable but corrupt registrar again refused to listen to any of my arguments
Filed dissolution application stating 8 legal reasons on why society commitee should be dissolved. But corrupt registrar didn't conduct even a single hearing on this application
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July 2023 To Nov 2023.
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After I came to know that the society lawyer is working as the auditor and returning officer for the registrar office and gets order in his favour by influencing/bribing the officers of Dy. Registrar, I filed RTI application in Dy. Registrar office to get the list of all societies who appointed her as the lawyer to get a favourable order from Dy. Registrar. As expected, PIO (Public information officer) dismissed my RTI application giving an excuse that the society lawyer has objected on sharing details of the cases fought by her.
Dismissal of RTI application by PIO implied the shady association between the Society lawyer and officers of Dy. Registrar. So, I filed an RTI appeal.
RTI Appeal was heard by Dy. Registrar himself. During hearing, When I asked PIO under which section of RTI informatin was denied to me, he had no answer. When I asked the same to Dy. Registrar, he said he will answer it in his order. In his order, Dy. Registrar refused to share details saying that RTI should be field for public interest and sharing the information I requested will not serve any public interest.
Registrar was fully aware that I had filed RTI to expose corruption, then also he passed such a wrong order. Now, you only decide whether exposing corruption in govt offices or by govt officers is in public interest or not?
Meanwhile, noticing that Dy. Registrar office is heavily biased and is not afraid of disciplinary actions from his superiors, I filed 200+ page transfer application directly before the ministry of Co-operation for the following three reasons.
- I had a doubt that superior of Dy. Registrar i.e Divisional joint registrar would simply supress my complaint and will not do any justice in this case.
- I expected ministry to crackdown on corruption that may be happening in all registrar offices.
- I wanted to give suggestions on why ministry needs to frame new laws to stop corruption in society and registrar offices. (All suggestions are listed at the end of his article)
- Only the ministry had power to order investigations & strict actions on misconduct and negligence in duty of administrator, Dy. Registrar and Agents/Officers of Dy. Registrar office.
In this application, I have exposed all frauds of corruption of Dy. Registrar offices with evidences. However, without waiting for the ministry of co-operation to hear and decide on my transfer application, Dy. Registrar closed my case and passed a biased order directing me to pay Rs. 2+ lakhs to the society. Such an order was passed even when the Dy. Registrar was fully aware that I don’t owe a single rupee to the society. On the contrary, society owed me money for charging exorbitant transfer charges, cheating, harassment, mischief, and mental agony.
Tip:-
- If you don’t have any proof of corruption by society or registrar office, then get that proof by filing RTI in Dy. Registrar office. On filing RTI, Registrar will direct the society to give the audit report, election report or any other documents requested by you.
- Get proof of corruption by govt officers by filing RTI in the same govt office where the officer is doing corruption. If the PIO (public information officer) don’t give the requested information, then SIC (state information commission) OR CIC (central information commission) can recommend disciplinary actions including suspension of PIO or can impose penalty of Rs. 25,000 on him.
- if the govt officer is not afraid of doing corruption then it means he has support of his superiors. In such cases, one can directly complain to the ministry the govt officer works for. If the ministry act on your complaint, then all is well and good. If the ministry ignores your complaint, then you will have one proof that state govt didn’t act on your complaint. This proof will be very useful if your case goes to high court.
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Filed a 200+ transfer application before the ministry of co-operation attaching all the proofs on fraudulent/unethical actions & corruption of managing commitee and Dy.Registrar office
RTI application requesting information to investigate the scam of registrar passing favourable order on cases where his own officer/agents acts as the lawyer of the society without vakalatnama
Copy of RTI order where PIO refused to share requested information.
Filed RTI appeal requesting registrar to share the requested information to investigate scam
Copy of RTI order on appeal where registrar refused to share requested information
Order by registrar to initiate recovery proceedings on false claims submitted by society
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3rd Jan 2024
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After receiving the copy of order, I filed a review application before the divisional joint registrar. As the whole proceeding by Dy. Registrar office was vitiated by fraud, my case should not be reviewed, instead should be reopen and reheard again by some registrar. However, as there is provision of reopening of case in MCS act, I had to file review application.
Tip:- Note that filing a review is very important because if you don’t file a review application, then Dy. Registrar will simply issue a recovery certificate that will direct the recovery officer to recover amount by selling off your property.
Below points shows that how badly the MCS laws are framed
- Even when the govt is fully aware of corruption in govt offices, they have passed law that gives authority to govt officers to conduct biased proceedings and pass an order of auctioning anyone property.
- There is no provision to reopen or transfer the case.
- There is a provision of only filing Review application, not an appeal.
- You have to mandatorily deposit 50% of the amount stated in order for the revision application to be heard by Divisional joint registrar. This means that even if the Dy.Registrar fraudulently orders you to pay Rs. 10 lakhs, then also you have to mandatorily deposit 5 lakhs, otherwise your review application will be dismissed by Divisional Joint registrar
One of the major differences in review and appeal is that in case of appeal, no judge will dismiss your application without listening to you whereas in case of review, judge can simply dismiss the application without listening to you. This means that in case of review application, you may not even get a chance to represent your case.
In most of the cases, divisional joint registrar dismisses the review application by stating that petitioner didn't deposit 50% of the recovery amount. While submitting the review application, i was also told by Divisional registrar office to deposit 50% amount but i challenged it stating that since the order has been obtained by fraud, it is not legally binding and So, 50% amount need not be deposited in my case.
If you are also forced to deposit 50% of recovery amount, then cite the following judgements to the divisional joint registrar :-
In Ganpatbhai Mahijibhai Solanki v. State of Gujarat and Ors. (2008) 3 SCC 556, this Court held:
"It is now a well settled principle that fraud vitiates all solemn acts. If an order is obtained by reason of commission of fraud, even the principles of natural justice are not required to be complied with for setting aside the same."
In T. Vijendradas and Anr. v. M. Subramanian and Ors., 2007 (12) SCALE 1, this Court held:
21. ...When a fraud is practiced on a court, the same is rendered a nullity. In a case of nullity, even the principles of natural justice are not required to be complied with
In Lazarus Estate Ltd. Vs. Besalay 1956 All. E.R. 349), the Court observed without equivocation that "no judgment of a Court, no order of a Minister can be allowed to stand if it has been obtained by fraud, for fraud unravels everything."
If the divisional joint registrar still doesn't listen and orders you to deposit 50% amount, then download the above judgements from high court & supreme court website, file these judgements in your revision application and let the divisional joint registrar dimiss your review application. After dimissal, challenge this order of divisional joint registrar by filing a writ petition in high court under article 226 of the indian constitution
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Review Application filed before the divisional joint registrar.
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3rd Jan 2024
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Filed complaint before the Commissioner for cooperation for fair hearing and investigation into corruption by society and registrar offices
Tip:- After filing review application before the divisional joint registrar, don't expect any relief because most of the Dy. Registrar have good connections with divisional joint registrar. They frequently have discussions, meetings, conferences on various society and official matters. If any registrar is doing illegal and unethical activities without any fear of suspension or disciplinary actions, then believe that he has the support of his superior. So, better file your complaint at multiple levels instead of filing it at only one level. All these complaints will be very useful if the matter goes to high court
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Complaint filed before Commisioner of co-operation for crackdown on corruption in Dy.Registrar office.
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3rd Jan 2024
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Filed second appeal on RTI to retrieve documents from Dy. Registrar office that will expose the relationship between Dy. Registrar office and lawyer-cum auditor. These documents may give the proof that Dy. Registrar allow his own officers/agents to work as the lawyer of the society without submitting Vakalatanama and then passes order in favour of such lawyer without going through the merit of the case and without listening to arguments of the opposite party.
Tip: If your First RTI appeal is rejected wrongly, then you can file second appeal before the SIC(state information commission) for state govt offices or CIC (Central information commission) for central govt offices. You can file a second appeal online but most of the times, their website don't work and you have to file second appeal physically in office of SIC as you don't even recieve response from their support as shown below
Update(8th May 2024) :- I found filing of second appeal as not useful because SIC takes 2 to 3 years to dispose the second appeal. After 2 to 3 years, information received may be of little use in my case. However, it can be useful for applying penalties on PIO, FAA and demanding compensation if you faced monetary losses due to not receiving information on time.
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RTI appeal filed before SIC, requesting to pass order directing Dy. Registrar office to share requested information.
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3rd Jan 2024
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Complaint filed before ministry of co-operation through secretary, for action on corruption in housing societies and Dy. Registrar offices and suggestion for new laws (listed at end of article)
Tip:- If complaint to Divisional joint registrar and commissioner of co-operation doesn’t help, then file complaint before ministry of co-operation. Attach all above complaints showing that the none of the govt officers including the commissioner of co-operation did their duty of resolving public grievances.
As I also have suggestion on why more stringent CHS laws need to be created, I have more reasons to write to Ministry of co-operation.
Filing complaint in Maharashtra is very easy. Just login into the below website, select ministry of co-operation, fill your details, describe complain in 3000 words, attach document and submit complaint. You will recieve a token number, that you can use for tracking your complaint
https://grievances.maharashtra.gov.in/
You can also give you suggestion to different ministries of govt using the same above website
Update(8th May 2024) :- Grievances raised on govt portal doesn't work. My complaint raised on 3rd Jan are still not resolved. Moreover, i noticed that ministry of co-operation resolves less than 10% of the total number of cases. Check below screenshot
Update(24th Sep 2024) :- Grievance was closed after 8 months by Dy. Registrar via biased order.
I escalated to DDR with comment "Dy. Registrar cannot decide his own case.This grievance was filed for action on corruption by Dy. Registrar of Dombivli. How can this grievance be assigned to the same person (Dy. Registrar of Dombivli) against whom I have complained of corruption? Even if it got assigned to Dy. Registrar , then also he should have transferred the grievance to its superior authority instead of mischievously closing the grievance via biased order."
DDR Thane office also mischievously closed the grievance by attaching the same order that was attached by Dy.Registrar. DDR office did not even bother to upload his own order.
Then i esclated to DJR, Konkan bhavan, who did nothing other than reassigning the grievance back to Dy. Registrar, Dombivli.
Isn't this the proof that grievance redressal system in Maharashtra is a joke? When you complain against corruption or dereliction in duty by any govt officer, Grievance gets assigned to the same officer against whom you have complained of corruption. This corrupt officer obviously closes the grievance via biased order. After multiple escalations, higher officials does nothing other than reassigning the grievance back to the same corrupt officer. Isn't this the proof that all the officers works closely with each other to supress the complaints against corruption? This has happened even after all of them being aware that complaint has also been filed against them before the CM office of Maharashtra.
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Complaint filed before Ministry of co-operation for crackdown on corruption in Dy.Registrar office and suggestions for improvement in CHS Bye-laws.
Grievance Acknowledgement
Grievance acknowledgement of amother complaint
Biased order of Dy. Registrar
My escalation comments against Dy. Registrar and District Deputy Registrar
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Jan 2024 to Feb 2024
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Society started sending me threat of attaching my property via local District Co-operative housing federation.
I wrote back to District housing federation that their job is to honestly guide society to resolve society issues, not to participate in fraud of society. I also requested housing federation to take action on fraud by society even when i knew district housing federation will do nothing. If any action taken by housing federation, then i can show these letters in high court and reveal that despite of submitting proof on fraud by society, housing federation did not do its job of taking action against fraud society and participated in the fraud of the society to threaten and harass the innocent society members.
Tip:- if you recieve threatening notice from anyone, then always reply asking them to do their duty honestly and maintain a copy of reply to expose them in higher courts.
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Final notice to society to stop their fraudulent actions attaching Letter sent to district housing federation and collector office
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3rd March 2024
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As society refused to share documents that would have exposed corruption of society commitee and Registrar office, I filed an RTI before Registrar office to get those documents
I expected this RTI to be rejected mischievously as it is very unlikely that Dy. Registrar office will share documents that exposes the corruption of his own office
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RTI exposing corruption by Society committee and Dy. registrar office
Legal Notice To Registrar
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March 2024 to April 2024
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After filing of RTI that exposes corruption in Society and registrar office, One member of society started sending legal notice to me threatening me of a civil, criminal and co-operative case if i don't do the following.
a) Adopt all the stray dogs
b) Belt-fast the stray dogs and keep all of them confined in my house
c) Don't feed the stray dogs
I have no doubt that this threat was given on the behest of society commitee and agents of registrar office because this member has simply repeated the same old false arguments of society commitee on dog issue and refused to held society commitee liable for the dog issue even when i gave reasoned arguments, grounds and evidences for the same.
Tip:- If your society is also threatning you of filing bogus case against you just for feeeding stray dogs, then send them a legally reply citing the guidelines of AWBI and judgements of high court/supreme court from below links
Animal Welfare Board of India issues advisories with regard to stray dogs and pet dogs
Stray dogs: From ownerless to community-owned
Meanwhile, i also sent a legal notice to Dy. Registrar giving him one last opportunity to undo his illegal actions or otherwise, i will file a criminal case against him
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Threatening Notice For Feeding Dog and My Reply
Legal Notice To Registrar
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7th May 2024
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if you see above on 3rd jan 2024, I had indicated that Divisional joint registrar will dismiss my review application via order to pay 50% deposit of recovery charges. This is what exactly happened as soon as I started speaking on fraudulent actions of Dy. Registrar. DJR kept iterating section 154(2a) of MCS act even when i argued that how can any section be applied on an order that has been obtained by fraud and has no legal value. He refused to listen affirming that even if the Dy. Registrar would have passed a fraudulent order to pay 1 crore, I would not hear the arguments until the petitioner deposit 50 lakhs. This gave me a perfect ground to file a writ petition in Bombay high court as this means that poor and unprivileged will never get justice in such cases as they will have no means to deposit money nor any means to fight in higher court which also means that poor/unprivileged would lose his property while Dy. Registrar may enjoy for deliberately passing the wrong order. I may also file a PIL on this issue and various other much-needed CHS laws that i have stated at the end of this article
Before the hearing itself, i have anticipated such a hearing and had filed a RTI to get various information that will be useful for my writ petition before the hon'ble high court
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RTI to get information on corruption stats of various registrar offices under jurisdiction of DJR
Society affidavit with lies before divisional joint registrar
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9th May 2024
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Sent a legal notice to TDCHFL(Thane District Co-operative Housing Federation Ltd) for their illegal and unconstitutional act of obtaining an illegal authority(of dues recovery and attaching property) from District deputy registrar(DDR) either by paying bribe or via influence or Both. Role of housing federation is to guide societies but presumably by bribing DDR, TDCHFL has obtained the authority of dues recovery and attachment of property from DDR despite of the fact that DDR has no power to grant such authority to a private organization like TDCHFL
TDCHFL did not reply to any of my legal notice till date (i.e Jul 01, 2025)
Note that chairman of Thane District Co-operative Housing Federation Ltd is a BJP politician who has good influence with local MLA, DJR, DDR and even minister of co-operation. His photo with VIP's of Maharashtra can be seen in Facebook page of Thane District Co-operative Housing Federation Ltd. Now, you may have understood how TDCHFL got the illegal authority and why all my complaints on his corruption are getting supressed and why no dept of state of maharshtra is acting on my complaint?
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Legal notice to TDCHFL(Thane District Co-operative Housing Federation Ltd) for their illegal act of obtaining an illegal authority from DDR
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13th May 2024
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I approached local MLA on this issue for four reasons:-
1) Corrupt secretary of my society is the brother of the local politician working for the same party to which the MLA belongs
2) Resolving the problems/concerns of the constituency or issues with corruption in local government offices, departments etc. is also the responsibility of MLA
3) In legislative assembly, Highlight the issue with existing laws in MCS act and amend the MCS act to rectify the issues as suggested at the bottom of this blog
4) To find out if the MLA works for the common man and whether to vote for him or not in upcoming election
However, i was not allowed to meet my local MLA. Some officer(likely secretary of MLA) in MLA party office refused to look into my issue saying that "You are free to take any legal actions. Party will not interfere in this matter"
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Letter To MLA urging him to act against corruption in local societies and Registrar offices
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23rd May 2024
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Filed an RTI before DDR office to retrieve illegal authority letter given to TDCHFL and how much recovery they have done based on this illegal authority letter?
Received the copy of authority letter from DDR office and found that the recovery amount specified is not enough to even pay the annual salary of recovery officer of TDCHFL which indicates that TDCHFL is misrepresenting recovery amount to hide their actual income or to hide the illegal recovery they may have been doing since TDCHFL got the authority from DDR office. This also indicates that everyone including higher officers of registrar offices are receiving some kind of benefits for illegal recovery proceedings via illegal authority issued to TDCHFL.
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RTI in DDR office requesting the copy of illegal authority order issued to TDCHFL and total amount recovered by TDCHFL based on this illegal authority letter.
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07th July 2024
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Filed an application before DDR office for revocation of illegal authority granted to TDCHFL and suspension of Dy. Registrar, Dombivli and disqualification of society committee. In this application, i have explained legally how the authority granted to TDCHFL by DDR is illegal and unconstitutional. I also requested action against Dy. Registrar and society committee for their fraudulent acts and dereliction in duty
As expected, no action was taken on this complaint till date(i.e July 01, 2024) and the DDR office is even refusing to inform me the status of my complaint
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Application before DDR office requesting revocation of illegal authority granted to TDCHFL and actions against society committee and Dy.Registrar
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17th July 2024
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As all the departments in state govt including CM office failed to resolve my grievance, I filed a complaint before "Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances" addressing dereliction in duty by officers of all departments and the total failure of grievance redressal system in maharashtra. Below were my prayers
1) Direct the state govt of Maharashtra to form an SIT or a special team in Anti-Corruption bureau to investigate this case of corruption and fraud in Registrar offices of Maharashtra
2) Direct the state govt of Maharashtra to improve their services in resolving public grievances and penalize officers for dereliction in duty
3) Direct the state govt of Maharashtra to add new byelaws in MCS act to stop corruption in housing societies and Dy. Registrar offices. 15+ suggestions have already been shared by me
4) Direct the state govt of Maharashtra to file an FIR against all the officer-bearers of meadow-gate CHS and Dy. Registrar, Dombivli for their fraud and dereliction in duty
5) Direct the state govt of Maharashtra to Disqualify the illegally elected committee of meadow-gate CHS and suspend the Dy. Registrar, Dombivli till investigation by SIT or anti-corruption bureau
"Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances" directed the state govt to look into my issue but the state govt again did nothing significant other than opening a new grievance in grievance portal of Maharashtra and assigning this grievance to low-level Dy. Registrar who has no power to address any of my prayers requested in the complaint.
Update(24th Sep 2024) :- I have sent reminder to "Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances" reminding them of no resolution on my complaint and requesting them to assign the case to some high ranked officer who has absolute power to take all actions to end corruption and dereliction in duty by officers of multiple departments under ministry of co-operation
Update(20th Mar 2025) :- My complaint was again closed mischievously via comment that i am a defaulter and recovery order has been issued against me. Even when i have clearly mentioned that a fraudulent recovery certificate was issued by Dy. Register, case was closed with such a comment. When I appealed to superior authority (District deputy registrar) on what action was taken on corruption highlighted in my complaint, my complaint was closed by District deputy registrar without any comment. This shows that if you file a complaint, Ministry of co-operation transfer the complaint to junior officer(Who can't take any action against fraud of sr. officer). This officer sits on complaint for many months and closes the complaint via biased order. If you appeal, your complaint will go to the same officer against whom you have complained of corruption. Obviously, your appeal will also be closed mischievously
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Complaint before DARPG addressing dereliction in duty by officers of all departments and the total failure of grievance redressal system in maharashtra
Reminder to DARPG stating that the state govt has not done anything significant to resolve my grievance
Grievance created by state govt and assigned to Dy.Registrar of Thane
My escalation comments against Dy. Registrar questioning action taken against corruption
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18th July 2024
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Filed an RTI appeal before Dy. registrar office stating that PIO has deliberately issued a wrong order so that i don't recieve crucial information/documents on corruption by society and Dy. Registrar. I shared the notification link where it is clearly stated that RTI request of upto 500 characters is allowed and even if the request exceeds 500 character, it can be admitted by applying extra charges. And hence, the order of PIO that RTI application shouldn't exceed 150 characters is wrong. Copy of this notification from central govt can be found in below link
RTI application upto 500 characters allowed
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RTI appeal on exposing corruption in society and registrar office
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4th Oct 2024
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Divisional joint registrar(DJR) passed the order after five months of disposing the case. DJR refused to decide case based on supreme court judgment that "Order obtained by fraud has no legal value" and passed the order of dismissing my case as petitioner refused to deposit 50% of recovery amount. Also, DJR did not order anything on corruption and fraud of his junior officer i.e Dy. Registrar
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Biased order of DJR dismissing my review and refusing to take any action on corruption by his junior officer
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11th Nov 2024
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Filed a complaint before lokayukta to investigate the corruption by Dyr, DDR & DJR. Submitted various proof on supression of complaints and also shared this website link for all other documents on corruption and misuse of power of DYR & DDR
Update(28th Mar 2025) :- As I kept inquiring over phone, email and personal visit to lokayukta office on status of my complaint, i finally got a reply from lokayukta office that my complaint has been closed. Order stated that TDCHFL has informed them of recovery proceedings and I have not provided enough evidence on corruption. Despite of submitting clear evidence on misuse of power and corruption by registrar office and sharing all other documents via this website link, lokayukta strangely did not find any evidence on corruption. Also, Lokayukta office has closed my complaint without scheduling even a single hearing to hear my case. I replied to email of lokayukta requesting him to schedule a hearing to hear my case and see evidences on corruption but i got no reply to my email
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Complaint to lokayukta for invetsigation and action into corruption by Dy. Registrar, DDR and DJR
Order of Lokayukta closing complaint without investigation and hearing
Email to Lokayukta requesting fair hearing but received no response
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21st Mar 2025
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Thought of trying one more attempt of reaching out to ACB before approaching the hon'ble Bombay high court. So, filed this online complaint before ACB for investigation into the corruption by registrar offices
Update(26th Jun 2025) :- After filing a request to state govt for protection under whistleblower policy, i got a call from ACB asking me to visit their office and share the documents on corruption
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Complaint to ACB requesting for investigation on corruption
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15th April 2025
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Recieved another notice from Thane district co-operative housing federation Ltd(TDCHFL) that they will visit my bungalow to initiate recovery proceedings. They were issuing this notice despite of having no legal authority and even after the illegal authority granted by DDR to TDCHFL has expired in Mar 2025. I knew that TDCHFL would not visit my bungalow and so, ignored this notice
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Illegal notice by TDCHFL issued even when their illegal authority has expired
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Mar to Jun 2025
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Multiple hearings happened on my second RTI appeal before SIC. Despite of lies by society lawyer and Dy. Registrar, SIC passed the order directing Dy. registrar to provide the information requested in my second RTI appeal. In the last hearing on 23rd Jun, I filed an application before SIC for applying penalties on Dy. Registrar and initiating disciplinary actions against PIO and Dy. registrar for repeated violations of RTI act as they have not provided requested information in other RTI's as well via biased orders.
Update(27th Jun 2025) :- Despite of order by SIC, PIO did not share all the requested information. Just to show off that he has complied with order of SIC, PIO shared partial and incomplete information(which i already had). So, i filed one more RTI clearly stating what information i need and how his given information was incomplete and misleading.
Tip:- You can file an application for disciplinary actions plus penalties against PIO and FAA (First appellate authority) if they have mischievously not provided the requested information or repeatedly refused to give requested information
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Application for discplinary action against PIO and DYR
Partial information shared by PIO
New RTI clearly stating the information i needed to expose further corruption in dy. registrar office
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21st jun 2025
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when I visited the society office to obtain copy of the requested documents, Election officer-cum-appointed society manager(i.e proxy agent of registrar office in my society) refused to provide the documents, stating that the society commitee had made the decision to not provide the documents. Upon inquiring about the date of the meeting, its attendees, and requesting relevant records, Proxy agent of registrar was unable to answer and provide any accurate information. In order to document the lies of proxy agent and the society committee, I submitted a formal written application to the society committee for CCTV footage of the society office and the
records of the managing committee meetings. However, members of the managing committee present in the society office refused to acknowledge the receipt of this application. Proxy agent of registrar also stood up in an apparent attempt to confront me, but was restrained by
other society members. Subsequently. the society secretary warned me not to visit the society again. My wife intervened in the
situation and escorted me back home. Due to the lack of acknowledgment of my application at the society office, I sent the application via WhatsApp. Shortly thereafter, the society
supervisor visited my residence and claimed that Election officer-cum-appointed society manager had lodged a false complaint alleging that I had beaten him during my visit to society office.
After this incident, i filed a grievance online for police protection from any foul play under whistleblower policy and whistleblower act(2014)
Tip:- If you are receiving threats for exposing corruption, then you can claim protection under whistleblower policy of state or Whistleblower Act, 2014(Central govt). However, i have not received any protection till date despite of multiple threats and multiple expose on corruption.
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Grievances online for protection under whistleblower after which i recieved a call from ACB for investigation into earlier complaint
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To be filed after order on second RTI appeal
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File complaint before the Bar council of Maharashtra and goa for disciplinary actions against the society lawyer for corrupt practices and violating BCI (Bar council of india) Rules.
Tip:- If any lawyer has any kind of relationship with the judge or meets the judge in his personal capacity or has connections to influence the judge, then such lawyer is not eligible to fight any case before that judge.
In my case, as the lawyer also works as the govt. certified auditor and meets the Dy. Registrar regularly for auditing or/and election purpose and has a connection with officers of registrar office, she cannot represent any case before the Dy. Registrar as in all such cases, she will most probably get favourable orders from the Dy. Registrar. This is precisely the reason why I filed RTI to investigate all her past cases, where she got favourable orders from the Dy. Registrar
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File consumer complaint for compensation, if required
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Following the above steps may resolve your issue but you will not receive any compensation for the harassment and mental agony faced in filing the above complaints.
Tip: - For compensation, you can either file a civil suit or consumer case. Civil suit takes time. So, better go for a consumer case citing deliberate negligence in duty and harassment by society committee. Don't file case for minor disputes. As you are going to stay in the same society, file cases only when the actions of society commitee is very grievous in nature
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File FIR or private criminal complaint, if required
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If society committee is harassing you, threatening you, defaming you, forcing you to pay money or damaging your property then you can file FIR in police station. If police refuse to file FIR, then file a private complaint before the J.M.F.C (Judicial Magistrate of First Class) of your area.
File complaint under one or more of the below sections
IPC 425 : For any monetary loss including damage to property
IPC 499: For defamation
IPC 383: For forcing you to pay extra money.
IPC 503: For criminal intimidation (threat to your life, reputation or property)
Note: - Above IPC sections would be replaced in future by new laws (Bharatiya nyaya sanhita) passed by the parliament
Tip:- If you are educated, then avoid hiring lawyer for your case and fight on your own. Because there are considerable chances that your lawyer will join hands with lawyer of opposite party, and both will work together to drag the case so that both lawyers can mint more and more money from their respective clients.
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To be filed in Future, if required
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If none of the above step’s work for you, then the only option left is to seek relief from high court under article 226 of the constitution
Tip:- Try to resolve the matter before it reaches the high court. Because hearing in high courts gets deferred many times due to paucity of time and a good lawyer of high court usually charge huge amount of money per hearing.
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