For using RTI get expelled

[LESLIE ALMEIDA]

Member’s RTI pleas anger Bandra housing society
Clara Lewis,TNN | Mar 30, 2014, 12.33 AM IST

MUMBAIi: The managing committee of a housing society in Bandra has issued expulsion notice to one of its member citing filing of RTI applications as one of the reasons.

The 96-year-old Salsette CHS, which has 210 plot owners as its members, in the tony Bandra (W) has issued an expulsion notice to Leslie Almeida, a member of the society. Almeida was a served a show-cause notice on February 10, asking why he should not be expelled for his various misdemeanors, including filing 54 applications under the Right to Information Act. He has been seeking information about various buildings that are members of the society.

A special general body meeting of the society has been called on Sunday evening to decide on the matter. Cornel Gonsalves, secretary, Salsette CHS, said there are several other serious charges against Almeida. The notice also states that in 2009, when a similar threat of expulsion had been made, Almeida had issued an unconditional apology but since he did not mend his ways, it was once again forced to consider his expulsion. However, Almeida claimed he had given the apology under duress.

The society, said Gonsalves, had been unnecessarily dragged into an almost decade-long property dispute between Almeida and his brother Dr Selwyn. "We and the deputy registrar are being unnecessarily harassed. We have built up as many as 15 files on this plot dispute," he said. Dr Selwyn is a member of the managing committee.

Almeida, however, said he had used RTI to expose various illegalities in Bandra and in the Salsette society.

Housing society expels member for RTI ‘harassment’

TNN | Mar 31, 2014, 02.40 AM IST

MUMBAI: In a first, the Salsette Catholic society in Bandra expelled a

member for harassment through the RTI Act. 

At a special general body meeting on Sunday, 54 of the 73 members present

voted in favour of the motion to expel Leslie Almeida. Earlier, Almeida had

not replied to a show cause notice issued by the society that said it would

allow him to present his side. But at the meeting, members did not give

Almeida an opportunity to speak as they constantly interrupted him. The

committee, however, made a 90-minute presentation on why he should be

expelled. 

Father Michael Goveas, parish priest at St Andrew's Church, suggested an

inquiry be set up to prove allegations against Almeida. He also objected to

Almeida's photo with a stone in hand, saying it proved nothing as it did not

show who Almeida was taking aim at. The society's secretary, Cornel

Gonsalves, said the society had been dragged into a personal dispute. "The

society has been harassed with hundreds of RTI applications," he said.

How can one haress Dy.Registrar CHS, I did not get info from PIO went to 1st appeal who is Bap of PIO rejected my 1st appeal  went to SIC where SIC ordered to give me documents free of cost as per RTI act, I have enough Material to nail not only Salsette catholic society but its subsidery Bandra Gymkhana, they feel  threatened they have expelled me using other fivorious grounds,They have even used Police to make Chapter case against me all this using the clout of our MLA Baba Siddique for vote bank, I am not deterred, No body can stop me from doing what i want to do, they can only stop me by killing me, it does not matter many RTI activist are killed.

I have support from many quarters except RTI activists from Mumbai including our ex CIC

this for yr information

Leslie Almeida

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