The Mumbai High Court has denied interim relief to the Wadia family-backed Springs Condominium Association of Apartment Owners, which had moved the court seeking to restrain a facility management company and other flat owners from preventing the entry of another facility management firm’s staff who were hired to maintain the 40-storey Springs Tower building.
The Condominium Association had alleged that members of facility management company CBRE South Asia Pvt. Ltd. and some flat owners had on June 1, 2016 deliberately blocked the entry of representatives of My Aashiana who were hired by it to replace CBRE staff as facility managers of the building.
However, the court was informed that the incident did not take place on the said date, and that a handful of My Aashiana staff had visited on June 3, 2016.
In view of this, the court said “No ad-interim relief is granted in favour of the Plaintiffs (The Spring Condominium Association of Apartment Owners).” The court has appointed Ketan Trivedi as commissioner to take accounts and Kiran Bobade, Dy Register, NIC as commissioner to visit the building and take custody of the CCTV footage of the main gate of the large property which is maintained by Bombay Dyeing, the Wadia Group company.
This is to track the movement of people from June 1 and June 3, 2016.
Similarly, the court has sought a report on the recordings from CCTV cameras in and around Spring Tower on these three days to establish the truth.
The building was originally constructed by Bombay Realty of Bombay Dyeing & Manufacturing Company on the portion of the over 40 acres Spring Mills land at Dadar East. Two different groups in the building been feuding over control of the building for some time now.
