Living as a paying guest in the city is not easy if you are a bachelor or an unmarried girl since most societies lease out homes only to married couples and families. But members of Ratna Paradise Society at Khoraj near Vaishnodevi took their hostility against unmarried tenants several notches higher.
Nirma University
Members of the Ratna Paradise Society allegedly hired bouncers to deny entry to the girl students of Nirma University who have rented flats in the society. Not only were they denied entry, but the bouncers and three security guards were also instructed to click their photographs on their cellphones. They even asked for the phone numbers of the girl students, which according to landlord Yogesh Patel could be misused. Patel alleged the gates were shut for two-and-a-half hours, forcing the girls to wait outside amid the heavy downpour. They were left crying on the road and with nowhere to go.
He told that he had bought a flat for himself and his family and an additional flat with the explicit understanding with the builder that he intended to lease it out to girl students of Nirma University. Patel alleged that a meeting was called by the members on August 27 where “they had planned to attack me with the help of hoodlums from outside the society.” “I am willing to provide evidence of this before the magistrate,” he said.
On August 28, Patel claims to have attempted to apply the possibility of an attack on him but the ASI refused to accept it. He claimed Adalaj police officials called him on August 30 and ASI Nanavati told him that there were three to four complaints against him. Patel alleged he was forced to sign a letter as part of a compromise to withdraw the aforementioned applications. “I was also given a month to shift the girl students from my premises failing which, they said, they would do it,” Patel said.
Bouncer’s Appointed
When asked about the bouncers hired by society members, Arun Joshi, a society member said, “The bouncers were hired by a member of the society ahead of the Vaastu of his flat. We wanted to ensure that people who are not supposed to get inside are not present on the premises. We have asked Patel not to run a PG and the society has even passed a resolution that flats should be leased out only to families.”