Kandivali society under fire for misuse of funds

The deputy registrar of cooperative housing societies in R-South ward has issued a show-cause notice to the Kandivali-based Green Meadows Cooperative Housing Society for allegedly using the society’s funds to celebrate the birthdays of its chairman and a managing committee member.

- Dhairya Gajara

Located at Lokhandwala Township in Kandivali (East), Green Meadows Bldg 5/6 CHS has been embroiled in a dispute over expenditures related to the birthday celebrations of committee members.

Resident Shekhar Hattangadi raised the issue by citing entries in the society’s account books, which indicate that the committee spent over Rs1,500 on cakes and refreshments for the birthdays of committee member Harshada Kiran Desai and chairman Devesh Tanna in September 2022 and July 2023, respectively.