Mr Shah, a senior citizen residing in a housing society in Andheri (East), Mumbai, went through a lot of hassles and a lengthy 14-year legal battle to get compensation from his housing society for bad roof work that led to water leakage in his flat.
To sum it up, Mr Shah owned two adjoining top floor apartments (no. 603 and 604) in the building. Back in 2006, the housing society decided to undertake serious structural repairs since the building was around 30 years old. They collected about Rs 33.58 lakh from all the 28 flats for the major repairs of the 'H' Wing, based on the square footage of each flat. Mr Shah's share of this amount was Rs 1.52 lakh for the repair work in his two apartments.
