Those who have three children cannot contest housing society elections

Mumbai: Those who have three children cannot contest any election. The rule is that any public representative who wins the election by hiding this information is declared ineligible. Giving an important decision, the High Court has said that this rule also applies to housing society elections.

The bench of Smt. Avinash Garoteni gave this verdict. The order of the sub-registrar disqualified the president of a housing society in the western suburbs who has three children. Garote confirmed. Pawan Kumar Nandkishore Singh, president of Ektanagar Cooperative Society in Charkop area of ​​​​Kandivali, filed an application. Deepak Tejal and Ramachal Yadav had challenged his election as president. Singh has three children, so the demand to disqualify him was made with the sub-registrar of MHADA Cooperative Society. The sub-registrar disqualified Singh. Singh filed an application against him. This application was rejected by the court.

Singh argued that the third child was not his and he was staying at home to get education. When the court ordered Singh to produce his son's birth certificate, he could not produce it. His name was also on the ration card. This means that the child is his. Therefore, the court found that there was no mistake in the order of the sub-registrar.

Singh argued that there is no provision in the Maharashtra Cooperative Society Act to cancel the post of an officer who has more than two children. There is a rule to disqualify an officer if he has more than two children. As per the rule, Singh is disqualified. The petitioner's lawyer argued that the order of the sub-registrar was correct.