The Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (CMWSSB) cannot disconnect water and sewage connections to an entire apartment complex just because some of the residents had failed to remit the necessary charges, the Madras High Court has held.
Justice C. Saravanan said the amount due from individual residents could be collected by initiating proceedings under the Revenue Recovery Act, 1890 and that all residents of an apartment complex could not be put to inconvenience due to default committed by a few.
The orders were passed while allowing a writ petition filed by S. Vasudevan, a resident of an apartment complex at Mylapore in Chennai. The petitioner had stated that though 15 families were residing in his residential complex, only one had failed to remit water and sewage charges.
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