Housing Society to pay for theft in member’s flat: Consumer Forum

Mumbai: Arch Mutual Cooperative Housing Society located in Mumbai’s suburban area at Vile Parle has been asked by the Consumer forum to pay Rs.5000 as compensation 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.
The Mumbai Suburban Consumer Redressal Forum alleged that Arch Mutual Cooperative Housing Society haven’t asked any personal details of the watchmen at the time of hiring them and also did not bother to inform police about their antecedents.
The forum added that Society has also futile to maintain records of the watchmen not even photographs in their records so that it will aid to police authorities to nab the accused.
“The society was not vigilant and was found deficient in providing security to the members,”
“The society is found incompetent to provide security to it members”, the president of forum G L Deshpande and member Deepa Bidnurkar said while asking the society to pay compensation of Rs 5,000 to its member, Keth Fernandes.