You can file an FIR with the police station. It's illegal to disconnect water supply in any circumstances
Sir, ours is a group house with 10 flats.i am working women and live with two children and my husband stays abroad.my children leave to school by 7 am .I will leve to office by 10.15 am.we dont have sufficient bore water . so we all flat members contributed 30000 each and collected 3 lakhs and took second municipal connection where we can draw nearly 7000 litres of water.1st municipal connection which was provided by builder gives 1500 litres of water.totalling to 8500 litres of water for one day.This water comes at morning 9.30 am.But all the flat members decided to close the valves and fill the whole water in the overhead tank thereby disconnecting the drinking water which we drink from sump.Further i will leave the office at 10.15 .when they will leave the water and when i will do the work.AS soon as the water comes at 9.30 i will fill some water which will be sufficient for me.But now by the time i reach home the whole water in the water is being completed .They says valves will be closed and fill drinking water in cellar with pots.Is this illegal for not giving me drinking water .Dont i have right which facility given to me by builder.where shall i approach sir.please suggest me sir.Thank u.
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You can file an FIR with the police station. It's illegal to disconnect water supply in any circumstances
sir if i file an FIR in police station .is it valid as it was decission taken by all the 9 members.They says if all the 9 members agree what alone i can do.
1. Complain to the society management with a formal complaint.
2. If it does not get resolved then send a legal notice.
No. It's not a criminal matter to approach police. It is a civil dispute, between you and your housing society. So police complaint is not maintainable
Association is at liberty to fix timings for water supply
however timings should be convenient to all flat owners
since you are working women your convenience should also be taken into account by the association
If you file police complaint no action would be taken as decision was taken by consent of 9 members
you can issue legal notice to association that timings fixed are not convenient to you
See you can file a police complaint but in case the police will not likely to take complaint , you can issue a legal notice to the association seeking redressal of issue as water is essential In case on notice they fail action against association in court can be taken.
Dear Sir,
Any action of the association in disconnecting the water supply to the non-member flat will be considered by courts as illegal as it is an interference in enjoying the common facility. ... As per Supreme Court ruling that no society is entitled to disconnect or suspend common amenities including water supply.
The owner has to be persuaded to pay the maintenance charges as a member of the Association.
If any flat owner is not paying the maintenance charges, it is open to the association to pay the same and demand the same from the defaulting member in accordance with law, provided in the Apartment Ownerships Act.
As per Supreme Court ruling that no society is entitled to disconnect or suspend common amenities including water supply. You have to issue a legal notice to the defaulter and if he/she does not budge, move the Civil Court.
The Apartment Ownership Act of States will have a clause somewhat like this:
Compliance with covenants, bye-laws and administrative provisions.- Each apartment owner shall comply strictly with the bye-laws and with the administrative rules and regulations adopted pursuant thereto, as either of the same may be lawfully amended form time to time, and with the covenants, conditions and restrictions set forth in the Declaration or in the Deed to his Apartment. Failure to comply with any of the same shall be a ground for an action to recover sums due for damages or injunctive relief or both maintainable by the Manager or Board of Managers on behalf of the Association of Apartment Owners or, in a proper case by an aggrieved apartment owner.
Don't worry Mam please be cool. You have all the rights to live so please lodge a complaint with the Police Department of near by Thana giving all the facts. As this is your internal arrangement so best to approach the police who will instruct the other co-owners to rectify the arrangement, the police have power to do so.
This cannot be termed as disconnection
as only the individual valves supplying to each flat are closed and the entire water is collected in the overhead tank from which it can then flow to all the houses for storage in their respective water tanks
also the water is released at 930 am, so you have an option to collect and fill the drinking water and for water required for other purposes, you will have to make arrangement in your water tank so that it is automatically filled when the water is released from overhead tank
in my opinion any complaint by you will only be a futile exercise and will not yield any result
Yesterday the whole water was used away by 8pm.Till morning 9.30 by the time i left to office they dint open the valve .my children went to school without bathing.After i went to office they opened the valves and filled the water.I was in office and my child 10 years came from school .The watchman told him to fill water for 15 minutes.will my child can wash utensils or can he fill and wash clothes .Is child labour not a crime.Can i engage a child of 10 years who is now attending final exams who wakes up in morning 4 am for reading will be able to do the work.Now again in the evening before i go home they will again open the valves.when i should fill water sir.
There should be fix timings for opening valves of water supply
2) convenience of children and working women must be taken into account
3) file suit and seek court orders to direct association to fix timings for water supply convenient fir working women and children
The notice tongue association can be served and further you can also.make a complaint before the Municipal.corporation for water.
This problem of water should be sorted out within the society itself by doing a meeting of all the residents so that the releasing of water well in time so as those were office goers may use the water.
There is no matter of child labour if you are child is doing anything for the family it is not counted in child labour and if your problem cannot be sorted out why the meetings within the society when you have the option to move your complaint to Registrar of societies and get the direction for the society and its operation of water related services
This is a local problem which have to be sorted out locally. You can represent your plight in a meeting that can be convened specifically for this purpose.
Since you also contributed equally to the second water supply connection, you are entitled to equal share of water, however, it may be your duty also to make some arrangement to secure that your water supply position is safe so that you dont face water shortage when you return from office.
You can take it up through your association also.
This is not a criminal offence and nobody can be held responsible for you not getting water when you return from office.
You will be told that you make som alternate arrangement to fill up water which is being supplied during your absence.
You cannot file any legal solution to this problem. You may have to follow some procedure so that you dont suffer due to this instead of agitating over it.