HC urges UP to establish forum for apartment owner-RWA disputes
LUCKNOW: The Allahabad High Court’s Lucknow bench has noted that current laws fail to provide a proper mechanism for resolving disputes between apartment owners and Residents’ Welfare Associations (RWAs). The court directed the Uttar Pradesh government to explore the feasibility of establishing a dedicated grievance redressal forum. The directive came when Justice Alok Mathur and Justice Amitabh Kumar Rai dismissed a petition from four residents of Sarvodaya Sulabh Apartments in Gomti Nagar Extension. The court affirmed that managing a residential society is a collective duty of the RWA, and that discord among a few apartment owners regarding decisions made democratically…
