SECURITY LAPSE

Although holding of family functions in common areas within the precincts of the Society are banned in the Society norms circulated in May 2001. Past and present Management Committees as a gesture of goodwill were overlooking the practice. However, on the night of 24 Dec2008, a load carrier Tempo Regn No G 6358 entered the Society premises through the main gate accompanied by Mr Amrik Singh, f / o Mr Gurmaan Singh, who was organising a private family function on 25 Dec 2008. The Tempo Regn No G 6358 left the Society premises at 1035 PM through the main gate. However, six labourers stayed on in the Society premises without permission of the Managing Committee and slept in garage No 29. At 6.45 AM on 25 Dec 2008, the Secretary was informed that the labour had stayed on within the Society precincts at the behest of Mr Gurmaan Singh. At 8 AM on the same day another Tempo with Regn No DL 1LG 3904 arrived with load for Flat No 80. The Secretary instructed the guards at the main gate not to permit the vehicle inside before 9 AM. At 8.25 AM, Mr Gurnaam Singh accompanied by his father and Col TS Anand, Retd came to the Society office to insist that the vehicle be permitted inside as an exception to the norms followed by the Society. When the Secretary declined to entertain the request, the Secretary was accused of interfering in the former’s religious duties and told that ‘he would have to pay a heavy price for the same’. The whole security lapse on part of Mr Gurmaan Singh and his father was thus portrayed as a communal incident. On an earlier occasion too, labour working in his flat had been allowed by him to stay in the premises beyond 6 PM, despite objections by the MC.

At 2335 hrs, a gentleman claiming to be a senior police officer and brother of the Resident, went to the Main Gate and attempted to intimidate the security guards on duty. He asked them to permit a load carrier tempo to enter the Society premises to take away the tentage and other loads brought in for the function. The guards rightly refused to permit the tempo to enter the Society premises. He then used the intercom at the Main Gate to contact the Secretary and repeated the request. Upon being informed of the Society norms of not permitting any load carriers to enter the Society premises between 6 PM and 9 AM, he threatened the Secretary that ‘it will not be good for you’.



In the light of the security lapses, the threats issued to the Secretary on 25 Dec 2008, and the fact that the facility of using common areas for personal functions is being abused, the Managing Committee has decided that henceforth no personal functions, religious or otherwise, will be permitted in the common areas of the Society (including car parking space under stilts).