More trouble for the office-bearers of the high-profile Kapole CHS, as two residents have challenged the process of election to the society’s managing committee at the Bombay High Court. The petitioners have alleged violations in the process, which makes the committee illegal. The society is home to celebrities like Jaya and Amitabh Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan, and Kajol and Ajay Devgn.
 
Kapole Cooperative Housing Society (CHS) resident Jayant Sanghvi, one of petitioners in the case, has alleged that the society led by Chairman Atul Barot and Secretary Gautam Patel spent large sums of money without taking approval or discussing it with other committee members, as per the law.

“Upon detailed enquiry liability of more than Rs 50 lakh was fixed. Barot and Patel among others were held to be accused under Section 88 of the Maharashtra Co-operative Societies (MCS) Act, 1960. They were supposed to be disqualified from contesting elections so they filed a writ petition in the high court but suppressed that they had already approached the joint registrar of the cooperative society. The HC gave them the liberty to approach the joint registrar, based on which they managed to obtain a stay on the joint registrar’s disqualification order. We have challenged the same through a writ petition in the HC. The hearing is on June 29,” said Jayant.