Central Plaza maintenance records not seized, shop owners approach registrar in Gurugram

After hearing complaints of a representative group of shop owners of the mall, the state registrar on February 7 had issued an order to the district registrar office to seize all maintenance fund-related account records of the CPOWA’s governing body, and reappoint Sarika Jain as an auditor to conduct an audit in 45 days.

More than a month after the state registrar of firms and societies ordered the office of district registrar of Gurugram to audit the maintenance account of Central Mall Plaza, the aggrieved shop owners filed a contempt petition on March 8 in the court of state registrar, alleging that the governing body of Central Plaza Owners Welfare Association (CPOWA) is not cooperating with the authorities concerned. Also, the shop owners have sought action in this regard.

Central Plaza Mall is located along the Golf Course Road in Sector 53 and has as many as 60 shops. It is a ground plus three-storey establishment handed over by the builder to owners way back in 2007.(Ht File Photo)

After hearing complaints of a representative group of shop owners of the mall, the state registrar on February 7 had issued an order to the district registrar office to seize all maintenance fund-related account records of the CPOWA’s governing body, and reappoint Sarika Jain as an auditor to conduct an audit in 45 days.

Following the state registrar’s order, the district registrar office had reappointed Sarika Jain, but records of existing governing body have not been seized to hand it over to Jain even as 30 days have passed.

IS Yadav, district registrar, said, “I have ordered governing body to provide all assistance to Sarika Jain to conduct audit. This is all important documents. The auditor should visit office of the governing body to do audit.”

Yogesh Saini, complainant-cum-shop owner, said that Jain visited the governing body’s office with appointment letter of district registrar but failed to get assistance. “We have attached a copy of Jain’s letter to district registrar office mentioning that governing body members did not hand over the maintenance records. As one month has passed, it is difficult to complete audit in remaining days. This is clear contempt of the order of the state registrar,” said Saini.

“We have been demanding from the governing body members to share maintenance collection details with all shop owners for almost six years. The present members of governing body are holding the posts since 2013 and never shared details in this regard,” said Saini in his complaint to state registrar.

Central Plaza Mall is located along the Golf Course Road in Sector 53 and has as many as 60 shops. It is a ground plus three-storey establishment handed over by the builder to owners way back in 2007.

In 2012-13, the actual shop owners and tenants had formed two different associations resulting into disputes, with some shop owners approaching registrar office to settle the matter.

When asked about the issue, Ram Avtar Yadav, joint secretary of the CPOWA, said, “I will not comment anything in this regard since the matter is in court.”

There were two associations in 2013 – Central Plaza Owners Welfare Association and Central Plaza Occupants Welfare Association. On direction of the registrar office, the two associations merged into one as Central Plaza Owners Welfare Association.

About six months ago, on order of the state registrar, the district registrar had appointed Sarika Jain as auditor but on January 9 it replaced Jain with another auditor Anil Diwan without consent of the state registrar office.