Residents Report Crime and Corruption at Anjuman CGHS Dwarka in Delhi

Residents Report Crime and Corruption at Anjuman CGHS Dwarka in Delhi

Case of Anjuman CGHS (Trimurti Apartments) Plot No. 20, Sector 12, Dwarka, New Delhi 110 078

By Rakesh Raman

Case Update: May 12, 2024

The residents of Anjuman CGHS (Trimurti Apartments) continue to suffer while they complain that the criminality of the management committee (MC) members of the Society is increasing exponentially.

In their complaint in March 2024 to our “Clean House” service, the aggrieved residents had alleged election fraud, planning of harmful floor area ratio (FAR) construction*, and other irregularities by the MC of the Society. 

Anjuman CGHS residents complain that their requests to the MC and the Registrar Cooperative Societies (RCS) of the Delhi Government to streamline the functioning of the Society have been falling on deaf ears.

As the corrupt officials of RCS office have provided complete impunity to the Anjuman CGHS MC members, it is alleged that they are openly defying the law and committing crimes blatantly.

Now, in order to extort money from the members, the Anjuman CGHS MC has embarked upon a lethal FAR construction project which will harm men, women, children, and senior citizens living in the Society building.

As FAR construction runs for years in a society building, it causes enormous dust and noise pollution and even fatal accidents in the building where people are living. 

[ Related Case: Delhi High Court Warns DPS CGHS MC Members of Bailable Warrants ]

Anjuman CGHS residents complain that the MC which is hell-bent to start the FAR construction-cum-corruption work is forcing residents to pay money for dangerous construction and issued a tender notice for the project without following the statutory purchase processes. The last date for tender submission is stated to be 19.05.2024.

Residents who oppose FAR construction claim that their requests to the MC to get a website made for the Society (which is mandatory according to RCS rules) have been ignored because the Anjuman CGHS MC wants to carry out the multi-crore rupees FAR construction work in an opaque manner.

The residents have decided to escalate the issue of financial and other irregularities at Anjuman CGHS to the higher legal forums.

*Floor Area Ratio (FAR) or extended construction to add more rooms, balconies, etc. in occupied housing societies of Delhi. You can click here to watch a video and click here to read a report on FAR construction.

The previous report in this case is given below.

Case Update: March 22, 2024

As a journalist and anti-corruption activist, I sent the following notice to the management committee (MC) of Anjuman CGHS (also known as Trimurti Apartments). Since I did not get a response, I am publishing this case report publicly and again advise the MC to follow the law and stop the alleged irregularities at the Society. The authorities can investigate this case to catch the culprits.

I will soon file a formal complaint at various administrative and judicial forums against the Anjuman CGHS MC so that an appropriate legal action could be taken against the accused and the residents of Anjuman CGHS could live in a peaceful and corruption-free environment.

Note: As the case progresses, this webpage will keep getting updated. So, visit this webpage again.

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The President / Secretary
Anjuman CGHS (Trimurti Apartments)
Plot No. 20, Sector 12, Dwarka
New Delhi 110 078 

Copy: Registrar Cooperative Societies (RCS) of Delhi Government and Delhi Police

Subject: Show Cause Notice for Allegations of Irregularities in Holding Society Election, Running the Society Affairs Opaquely without Society Website, and Planning for the Lethal Floor Area Ratio (FAR) Construction Work at the Anjuman CGHS.

Dear President / Secretary (Anjuman CGHS),

I am a government’s national award winning journalist and founder of the humanitarian organization RMN Foundation. I also run various environment-protection and anti-corruption campaigns at the local and international levels. Moreover, I have been running an anti-corruption social service “Clean House” for the past 6 years to help the suffering residents of Delhi raise their voice against the growing corruption and injustice in cooperative group housing societies (CGHS).

As I allow the harassed residents to register their complaints to the “Clean House” service through an online form, a number of residents from your housing society led by Ms. Ranjna Anand (Trimurti Apartments) have approached me for help as they have alleged a range of financial and other irregularities at Anjuman CGHS. If their allegations are right, then as President / Secretary you are responsible for the wrongdoings for which through this notice I am giving you an opportunity to respond. The allegations and case details are described as under:

1. The complainants from Anjuman CGHS allege a number of irregularities in the Society election held on 19.11.2023 under the supervision of Returning Officer Mr. R.K. Gupta who – according to them – colluded with you / the President and others to allow the ineligible candidates to participate in the election. The complainants demand annulment of the said election.

2. It is alleged that you (Mr. Pawan Arora) as President are running the Society affairs as a family fiefdom with your relatives benefiting financially from Society projects. And to hide the financial irregularities, you are not carrying out statutory audits in the Society as prescribed by law.

3. It is alleged that you – along with your internal and external accomplices – are running the Society affairs at the Anjuman CGHS in a totally opaque manner to hoodwink the members and embezzle the Society funds. In this regard, it is alleged that you have not even made an exclusive Society website – which is a glaring violation of the government directive. You did not even respond to members who asked you to make the website.

4. You must be knowing that the office of the Registrar Cooperative Societies (RCS) of Delhi Government has issued specific directions and it is mandatory to make a Society website to keep all the members informed of your activities in a transparent manner. But you have deliberately defied the government order so that you could carry out your shady activities secretly. [ You can click here to read more about the RCS directive on making the website. ]

5. Since you have not made an exclusive website to give up-to-date information to the Society members who hold financial stake in the Society, it amounts to a deliberate defiance of the government order which intends to ensure transparency and stop corruption in the Society.

6. The members from Anjuman CGHS also complain that you are clandestinely planning to carry out a lethal construction project under the fraudulent floor area ratio (FAR) scheme in the Society building. You must be aware that FAR construction which runs for years in the occupied housing complexes is an environmentally hazardous work that would harm children, men, women (including senior citizens) who live in the building. If you go ahead with the FAR work, you would be deliberately making an attempt to harm innocent people and depriving them of their fundamental right to live in a clean and peaceful environment. The complainants expect you to stop FAR planning and upload all the communications including members’ complaints related to FAR on your Society website in a transparent manner. [ You can click here to know more about dangers of FAR construction in housing societies. ]

7. With these details, I am giving you an opportunity to respond to the allegations made by Ms. Ranjna Anand and others against you. In your response to this show cause notice, you can add any other information from your side to put forward your point of view and explain why your case should not be reported to the law-enforcement authorities including the police so that an appropriate action could be taken in this case.

Please send me your response (preferably by email) on or before March 21, 2024. If I do not receive your response by March 21, 2024, it will be assumed that you have nothing to say in this matter and I will proceed to take this case forward and approach the police and other law-enforcement authorities with the information that I have. 

You are also urged to inform all the members of the Anjuman CGHS about this show cause notice while this case report will be made public on the “Clean House” service after March 21, 2024.

Note: This case is part of our “Clean House” anti-corruption social service, which helps the residents of Delhi raise their voice against the growing corruption and injustice in housing societies where millions of people suffer because of rampant corruption and lawlessness.

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